In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Yo, Adrian!

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

The whole world in one water tank.

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

WWII-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers. .

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.