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

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

This museum honors the farming past of the “Salad Bowl of the World.”

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.

In October 1856, Harriet Tubman escaped arrest at this site while attempting to reunite an enslaved woman named Tilly with her fiancé.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

Twelve unique carved plaques across Humboldt tell a story of the ingenuity and bravery of ordinary citizens during the city's burning.

Quotes and poems etched on stone plaques are hidden along this waterfront walkway.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

The oldest stone lion in Okinawa survived a major battle during World War II.

This tank participated in the liberation of Dijon from Nazi occupation.

This 19th-century church was built for Sicilian immigrants, survived World War II, and today stands on a landfill.

This memorial commemorates where a Japanese commander surrendered to Allied forces on September 3, 1945.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

A time capsule from 1934 Rhodesia, showing the grace and disgrace of a bygone era.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

This rural roadside cross marks the farthest point of Coronado's expedition, and the place where the Catholic faith first came to America.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.