Over 70,000 prisoners were “transported” to a brutal life of forced labor in this French penal colony.

Europe’s only spaceport is in South America.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

The Golden Dome is the most recognized building on the beautiful campus of the University of Notre Dame

The mural faces the football stadium and has been known as Touchdown Jesus since 1964

The revival of a classic Art Deco theater.

A piece of baseball history is preserved in a Pittsburgh parking lot.

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

Witness these plains giants that nearly became extinct in the late 1800s.

See this covered bridge's unique structure and enjoy a nearby lake-side loop trail.

This three-story Victorian mansion is now home to the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center headquarters.

This small cemetery remains hidden behind a recreation center.

This library is designed to commemorate the work of the Human Genome Project.

The home and final resting place of the first native-born American saint

An advertising mural tempering the behavior of Charleston’s children since the late 1800s.

Where some of America's earliest LGBTQ rights protests marched each Fourth of July

A steel skeleton is all that exists of what is supposed to be a replica of Noah's Ark

Two statues of the fictitious toy robots that ran afoul of local government

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."