This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.