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The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.

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

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.