This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

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

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.