One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

This small plaza encourages people diagnosed with cancer to never give up hope.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.