An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

Years of neglect and nature took a toll on this 19th-century lighthouse.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.