The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.