This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Dedicated to a legendary spiritual vision.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

The failure of one component toppled this entire bridge during rush hour.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.