A natural rock silhouette on Cape Elizabeth's scenic Shore Road, reminiscent of New Hampshire's "Old Man of the Mountain."

An eight-foot-long pine cone made out of 140 recycled steel shovels is an homage to Maine's state flower.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

New Hampshire's first neighborhood is now preserved as a historic village with live action role players.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

Wander among the gravestones in this historic border town.

The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

After his presidency, George Washington planned to live only a few blocks from the Capitol building.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.