The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.