A local prank turned town icon.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.