An industrial waste tourist attraction.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

These small house replicas have stood proudly since the 1950s, even as the property has changed hands.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

Honorable ranks graduating from the prestigious Army War College work hard to maintain their high standards of honor and erase those who don't.

A local prank turned town icon.

The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

This restored log building was one of the first toll booths for travelers along the Northern Turnpike.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.