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A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

With roots dating back to 1942, this retro diner was where Hank Williams is said to have uttered his last words.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

The last tree on which Pioneer Daniel Boone carved that he "cilled" a bear during his journeys.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.

Public opinion is still divided on this enormous sculpture in front of Baltimore's Penn Station.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.