This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

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

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

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

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