A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

Pay homage to a mysterious feline artifact outside of this Florida museum.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.