The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

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

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

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

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.