Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.