Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.