A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

When a massive landslide hit one of the world's tallest dams it created a tragic environmental disaster.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.