What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.