At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Yo, Adrian!

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.