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This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

An elephant is carved onto the gravestone of a man who was crushed by one.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

This family-owned diner has been slinging chili dogs since 1940.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.