An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.