Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.