"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

These ornate, fish-shaped water spouts guard Savannah’s historic facades.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

Before he was "Bob Marley, international reggae superstar," he was "Donald Marley," a Delaware resident and forklift operator working under an assumed name. This park tells the story.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.