Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.