Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

These boots are made for selfies.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.