The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.