At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

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.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

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

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

Oldest building in California still in use.