Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

It's common to find the famous science communicator's grave adorned with pale blue marbles.

Not one, but two of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces nestled on the same street.

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

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The walls of the statehouse tell the story of Ohio’s prehistoric past.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

The site where nine miners were trapped underground for over 77 hours in 2002.

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

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The playful side of the Columbus community is on full display.

Three bronze deer sculptures relax along the Scioto Mile.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.