This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.