The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

A pharmacy built in the shape of a mortar and pestle, now resembles a fancy cocktail.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.