In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.