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

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."