The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

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

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

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

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.