A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

The magic's in the hole!

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.