A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A seven-foot-tall cast concrete Native American Chief stands on the south railing of the historic Commerce Street Bridge, commissioned in 1914.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

A rehabilitation center for confiscated, orphaned, and abandoned chimpanzees.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

See the oldest known traditional stone-ground mustard mill at work at this Down East mainstay.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

After the state would not recreate this beloved rock formation, three New Hampshire brothers took things into their own hands.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.