The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

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

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.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.