Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

The freeway that never was.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

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

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

The whole world in one water tank.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.