A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.