Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The magic's in the hole!

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.