Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

This spot along the 23.5 degree north parallel marks the northern boundary of the tropics.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.