The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

A decorated war pigeon stands guard in eternal taxidermied rest at his alma mater.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.