The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

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

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.