An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

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

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

World's largest Christmas store.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.