Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.