Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

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

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

Known as "The Dome" this is the world's largest open air geodesic dome.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

You’ve heard of bookworms, but this small sculpture at a university library may be the world’s first bookbee.

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

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

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

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.