Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

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

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

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.