Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."