Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.