Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.