Andersonville, Georgia
Andersonville National Historic Site
The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.
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Andersonville, Georgia
The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.
College Park, Maryland
An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.
Greenbelt, Maryland
A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.
Hyattsville, Maryland
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.
Lanham, Maryland
A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.
Washington, D.C.
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
Washington, D.C.
A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.
Washington, D.C.
The oldest house in Washington, D.C. wasn't originally constructed in the nation's capital.
Washington, D.C.
A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.
Smithsburg, Maryland
A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.
Meadville, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.
Waterford, Pennsylvania
The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.
Erie, Pennsylvania
A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.
Mentor, Ohio
A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.
Ashtabula, Ohio
A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.
Cleveland, Ohio
The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.
Willoughby, Ohio
Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.
Euclid, Ohio
This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.
East Cleveland, Ohio
This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.
Cleveland, Ohio
On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.
Cleveland, Ohio
A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."
Cleveland, Ohio
Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.