The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

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

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

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

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

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 mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A quirky museum paying tribute to the history of the optical industry.