This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.