A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.