When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.