No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

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

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.