These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

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

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

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

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."