This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.