Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Walk in the footsteps of the famed astronaut at Purdue University.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

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

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.