The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

During the American Revolutionary War, iron excavated from this mine was used to make swords, cannons, and more.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.