A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.