A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

Here be dragons.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.