This tower has survived the times despite being composed of mud and camel hair.

This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

His discovery kicked off the Gold Rush. One of the hands on this commemorative statue points to the spot where he found the precious metal.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Get a close-up look at a 16th-century Basque whaling ship at this factory and museum.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.

The world's first transgenic bovine has been preserved at the museum where he spent his final years—though his old stable is now a cafe.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

Sculptures depicting Scottish and English soldiers in battle honor a 16th-century conflict.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.