An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.