A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

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

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.