This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

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.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.