A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This bridge uses an inverted bowstring truss and is believed to be the only of its kind in the United States.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The eccentric and colorful pavilions of Tower Grove park are a beloved and overlooked symbol. 

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Marine fossils from the Devonian period are exposed at this park.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.