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

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

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

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

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

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.