A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.

Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

These prehistoric replicas were based on actual skeletal remains.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.