A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.