Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.