A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

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

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

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

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