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A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.