A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.