Places Edited by PushingUpDaisies

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.