This historic Union Pacific Railroad depot is a stunning symbol of American post-Civil War progress.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

Honorable ranks graduating from the prestigious Army War College work hard to maintain their high standards of honor and erase those who don't.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A monument to an Irish secret society thought to be responsible for a string of violent attacks in Pennsylvania coal mines.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

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

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

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

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.