A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.