This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A hangar at Marathon Key’s airport is now an ode to aviation history.