Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

The world's longest known cave system.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.