This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.