An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.