Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This small island declared independence from South Korea in the hopes of attracting tourists.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.