This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.