Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

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

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.