A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

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

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

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.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."