A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Half of a house.