Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.