An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.