This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

Surrounded by industrial sprawl, a small monument marks the site of William Penn's first landing in Pennsylvania.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

The first free library in Georgia features an original Tiffany stained glass window of Mary Willis.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

One of Philadelphia's largest murals resides hidden under this bridge.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.