The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

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

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

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

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

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

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

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

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.