A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

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

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

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

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

A secret greenspace hides atop a Capitol parking garage.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.