A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

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

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.