Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

What appears to be an act of fruit vandalism is actually a cultural statement.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.