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Many historic lighthouses are close to being lost forever.

Thousands of soldiers die in the snowy encampment at Valley Forge, Pa.

Civil War battlefields are rapidly being paved over by spreading commercial and residential real estate developments.

Liberty ship the John W. Brown; schooner Coronet; schooner C.A. Thayer; Chesapeake Bay Oyster Fleet; cruiser USS Olympia.

An overview of the National World War II Memorial, to be built between the Washington and Lincoln Monuments.

Small, personal stories of men, women and children tell the story of the Civil Rights movement.

Historians oversee the restoration of the McCubbins-McCanless House of Salisbury, N.C.

The convertible transforms the driving experience.

Pop open the hood, check out the carbs, and hear the engines roar as we journey back to a time when gas was cheap, emission controls non-existent, and all that mattered was acceleration and speed.

Food trucks are hitting the big time; across much of America, they're changing the way people eat; from humble beginnings as chuck wagons and hot dog carts, they've taken off as ethnic eateries, gourmet specialists, and even high-tech mega trucks.

A countdown of the hottest vehicles featured on "Modern Marvels," from one of Jay Leno's vintage automobiles to a battery-driven roadster.

The Pacific Coast Highway winds from exclusive retreats in Malibu, Calif., to the wilds of Washington state.

Travelers from British Columbia north through the Yukon Pass on their way to Fairbanks, Alaska, thanks to one two-lane roadway, the 1,522-mile long Alaska Highway.

How superhighways move millions of people every year; 20-lane project in Houston; China's 28,000-mile National Trunk Highway System; High-Five interchange in Dallas; the anatomy of a traffic jam.

Spinning your wheels isn't just going around in circles, in fact, it's revolutionary - literally; the history of civilization has turned on the wheel, and we have traveled as far as we have because of it.

The convertible transforms the driving experience.

Pop open the hood, check out the carbs, and hear the engines roar as we journey back to a time when gas was cheap, emission controls non-existent, and all that mattered was acceleration and speed.

Food trucks are hitting the big time; across much of America, they're changing the way people eat; from humble beginnings as chuck wagons and hot dog carts, they've taken off as ethnic eateries, gourmet specialists, and even high-tech mega trucks.

A countdown of the hottest vehicles featured on "Modern Marvels," from one of Jay Leno's vintage automobiles to a battery-driven roadster.

The Pacific Coast Highway winds from exclusive retreats in Malibu, Calif., to the wilds of Washington state.

Travelers from British Columbia north through the Yukon Pass on their way to Fairbanks, Alaska, thanks to one two-lane roadway, the 1,522-mile long Alaska Highway.

How superhighways move millions of people every year; 20-lane project in Houston; China's 28,000-mile National Trunk Highway System; High-Five interchange in Dallas; the anatomy of a traffic jam.

Spinning your wheels isn't just going around in circles, in fact, it's revolutionary - literally; the history of civilization has turned on the wheel, and we have traveled as far as we have because of it.

The convertible transforms the driving experience.