The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.