The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

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

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

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.