A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

A larger than life statue of a steelworker keeps watch over a closed steel mill.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

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

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

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

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.