This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

A disarmed 40-foot nuclear missile on display outside a North Carolina church.

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 quiet cemetery in northeastern North Carolina holds tiny structures believed to protect spirits.

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

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Once used by British troops to gather water prior to the Battle of Bladensburg.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

These five Art Deco homes were meant to solve the "small house problem."

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Concerned residents saved this historic house and garden from demolition.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

Built in 1945, this historic train station has a new lease on life with its baggage area serving as an event space.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.