Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

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

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.