European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.