After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

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

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.

The remains of an abandoned air force hospital located on a redeveloped Air Force base.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.