Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

This tiny, triangular block has held the world record since 1964.

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

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A disarmed 40-foot nuclear missile on display outside a North Carolina church.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

Since the 1930s, this Pennsylvania town has celebrated the humble tomato.

A museum dedicated to the history of electric interurban transit near the home of the first electric trolley system in the United States.

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.