J.K. Gillon's illustrated description and discussion of the inspiration for the Dunmore Pineapple garden folly, built in 1761.

Roadside America takes a look at houses shaped like giant shoes in Pennsylvania and California: history, description and images.

History of the Hat and Boots gas station in Seattle plus news and updates on preservation, restoration and relocation to a neighborhood park.

Craig S. Thom provides a photograph and brief description of this 1998 building in Newark, Ohio, in the shape of a basket, headquarters of a firm that makes baskets.

Photograph and brief history of this timber-built elephant in New Jersey from the Boardwalk catalog.

America Hurrah hosts photographs of this extraordinary building in California designed by company president Colin Baden with a spaceship-like centrepiece.

An illustrated history, statistics and visitor information from the US National Park Service for this landmark designed by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and completed in 1886.

An illustrated history from Roadside America of the roadside farmstand in Long Island, United States, shaped like a duck to advertise that ducks and duck-eggs were sold there.

Illustrated description and history by Kathy Biehl of this building shaped like a duck on Route 24, in the care of Friends of Long Island's Heritage.

Brief illustrated history and description by Kathy Biehl of a house shaped like a shoe built by a shoe magnate in 1948 in Hallam, Pennsylvania.