See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.