A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

The Reagan Peace Garden at Eureka College features a chunk of the Berlin Wall.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

These fossilized remains of an ancient saber-toothed cat inspired the mascot of Nashville's NHL team.