Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

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

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.