The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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