Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This historic jailhouse was designed by famed architect Robert Mills.

The last refinements in the North Carolina-South Carolina boundary were marked with this stone.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

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

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Born from segregation and exclusion, Durham’s Black Wall Street is now a living reminder of the city’s past

A lovingly created and maintained collection of decorative gourd art.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.