After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This small beachside park commemorates the possibilities of discovery.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.