This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.