A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.