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

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.