Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.