The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

This church was constructed on the site where St. Philip the Apostle preached to the ancient Athenians.

This post-Ottoman era church in Athens was built by locals to serve the residents of Anafiotica

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

An underwater city for the dead.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.