One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

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

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

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

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.