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The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

Collectors keep the story of Ohio Valley glassmaking alive.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The childhood home of a Hollywood legend.

Three bronze deer sculptures relax along the Scioto Mile.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A local cafe and concert venue occupy a 1913 school house.

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

In the middle of an abandoned stretch of old Route 50 lies a tombstone that weighs three tons.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

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

True to its name, this little house presents like a dollhouse, and surprising details are revealed with a quick peek through the window.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.