This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

A pharmacy built in the shape of a mortar and pestle, now resembles a fancy cocktail.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

The tombstone of the founder of the lost town of Ogletown is now stuck inside a traffic median.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

A drab two-story office space in Delaware is a hidden tax haven for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and over half the Fortune 500 companies.

The highest point in Delaware is located under a trailer so this marker across the street will have to do.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.