An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

This historic fort spans more the 300 years.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.