Places Edited by lstraubbruce

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

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

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

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

Could it have picked a better place to land?

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

Where the oil industry began.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

The site of Neil Armstrong's first flight is marked by a full on replica of the moon landers.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.