The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.