This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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