The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.