The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

A local prank turned town icon.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.