This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

This cast-iron canine is a beloved icon among the people of Johnstown and ice hockey fans everywhere.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

Yorktown’s grandest colonial home still wears the scars of the siege that helped end the American Revolution.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

Where the oil industry began.

This Rodin sculpture in Cleveland bears the lasting marks of a 1970 bombing.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

How did a former First Lady's tiara wind up being sold to a pawn shop on reality TV?

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

The Branch Davidian compound known as the Mount Carmel Center became the site of one of the most controversial law enforcement operations in U.S. history.

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

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.