The national park was once a plantation estate.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

A secret greenspace hides atop a Capitol parking garage.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.