The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

A unique marker erected during the 18th century.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A quaint village where bomb casings from the Second Indochina War have been repurposed into mundane objects.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Get up close to an F-4 Phantom flown in the Vietnam War at this Florida park.

These craggy limestone outcrops offer a glimpse at a unique piece of Florida geology.

Known as the most resilient water tower in the region.

A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

A house built specifically to shelter the dead.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

After a long career, a disastrous sinking, and a half-successful salvage, this Naval vessel-turned-artificial reef ended up exactly where she was supposed to—with a little help from nature.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.