Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

One of New York's most iconic authors is strangely honored by this Oklahoma park.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

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

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.