The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This centuries-old graveyard is the final resting place of the Fort Fisher Hermit.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.