In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

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

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.