Long Beach, California
Looff's Lite-A-Line
The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.
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Long Beach, California
The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.
Brooklyn, New York
A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.
New Haven, Connecticut
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
New Haven, Connecticut
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Atlanta, Georgia
The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Los Angeles, California
This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.
London, England
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
Windsor, England
One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.
Santa Clarita, California
According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Natchez, Mississippi
The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
Addison, Vermont
Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
Spokane, Washington
This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.
White Rock, British Columbia
Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.
North Vancouver, British Columbia
This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.
Kaslo, British Columbia
The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."
Sanca, British Columbia
This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.