Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A humble ode to the heroic air rescue efforts of the United States Coast Guard serving on the Great Lakes.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.