This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.