Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

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

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."