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.

A lone grave is quietly tucked away in Kanawha Riflemen's Memorial Park.

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

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.