Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.