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The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

This smiling statue memorializes local cartoonist Bob Montana and his legendary creation.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

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

An impressive bridge over a ravine also served as an aqueduct.

A comfortable-looking armchair and a grandfather clock have been sitting on this sidewalk for the last 30 years.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

An underwater city for the dead.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

This statue honoring the most decorated dog of World War I stands in a Connecticut park.

An imposing pair of sphinxes stand guard outside this Egyptian Revival tomb.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A unique art exhibit home to letters addressed to those unable to receive them.

This medieval castle was reconstructed by Carlo Scarpa.