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This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.