A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

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

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

A piece of telecommunications history.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.