The ruins of a burned-down monastery have become a serene park and community space. 

Canada's oldest sugar maple has been growing since around 1500.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.