Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

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