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

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

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

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

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

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

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

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

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

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

A different kind of swan princess.

Get up close to an F-4 Phantom flown in the Vietnam War at this Florida park.

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

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

On the upper deck of this church-owned parking garage stand eight pillars topped with different Catholic saints.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.