137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

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

A memorial to two dedicated postal workers who lost their lives delivering mail.