The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Stock up on all your horror paraphernalia at this year-round Halloween emporium.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Over 100 miles from the ocean, this ship-shaped building was built in honor of the owner's sailor son.

This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.