The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

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

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.