Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.