This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.