These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

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

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The world's largest rotating world.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.