It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.