Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

A stunning medieval castle owned and restored by the famed actor Jeremy Irons.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

This local museum documents centuries of history along the Mississippi, from mound builders to massive quakes.

Odd castle-like structures for collecting water sticking out of the Mississippi River.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.