The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

America's first public mental health facility.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.