It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.