What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

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

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.