A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.