Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

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

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

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.