In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.