A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

A state park that once served as an important river crossing, and now offers protected lands for endangered plants and animals.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.