With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.