A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.

Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

The Jewish diaspora shares a menu at this museum café.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.