The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

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.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

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

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

The drawbridge used in the filming of the movie 'Annie' has been in the open position as it was in the movie for decades.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

Originally built in 1869, this castle is currently part of Felician University's campus.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.