The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.