Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!