This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.