Petersburg, Virginia
The Crater
An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.
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Petersburg, Virginia
An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
New York, New York
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Rockport, Massachusetts
An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Providence, Rhode Island
To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.
Kayenta, Arizona
Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.
Irwin, Pennsylvania
This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Fitzgerald, Georgia
The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.
Buffalo, New York
The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Florence, Kentucky
After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.
Mount Gilead, North Carolina
This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.
Sunderland, Massachusetts
This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"
Klamath County, Oregon
The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.
Decatur, Georgia
Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.
Los Angeles, California
The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.