Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

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

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

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

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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."