A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.