This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

Home of the golf club used by Alan Shepard on the moon, and more artifacts from the sport's history.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

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

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.