The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

The cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A family agreed to sell their property to Disney on the condition that this tree, planted as a wedding gift, would not be removed.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.