A school used as a model for public education across the country.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

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

The national park was once a plantation estate.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.