A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

In 1703, French settlers in what is now Mobile celebrated the first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States.

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

A pristine beach on the Gulf of Mexico with deep ties to Pensacola’s Black community.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.