The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

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

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.