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The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

This papier-mâché diorama celebrates an unusual landmark: the brightly-colored runoff from a local sock factory.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.