The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

One car at a time please.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.