This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

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

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.