This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.