Places Edited by Anna Minster

The largest roller-skating rink in the world.

Phoenix man has two yards full of vintage signs and antiques.

The real-life ‘Severance’ office building.

This boulder commemorates thousands of Irish immigrants that were victims of "ship fever."

The replica western town of Shadowhawk was built by a former Hollywood actor in Smithfield, North Carolina.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

The drawbridge used in the filming of the movie 'Annie' has been in the open position as it was in the movie for decades.

The C. A. Nothnagle Log House stands as the oldest surviving log cabin in the United States, offering a remarkable glimpse into America's colonial past.

A series of life-sized statues of each governor of the state of South Dakota.

Now a retreat center for the faithful, it once provided training for clergy—but it began as a farm owned by a famed financier and his opera singer wife, who built a surprise in the backyard.

The place where travelers of the Mohawk Trail forded the Deerfield River rather than pay the toll at the turnpike bridge.

An abandoned military bunker that has been transformed into an artist's paradise.

This museum-within-a-museum pays tribute to "The World's Most Experienced Airline."

The "Key of Keys" for Washington, D.C. and the apocryphal landing place for the military campaign that started George Washington's career is now at the bottom of a well.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

A small window was installed in this gravestone to honor a young boy's dying wish.

A tribute to a unique bike race that takes place every year.

The final resting place of a circus performer who went by the pseudonym "General Tom Thumb."

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.