The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

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

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.