This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.

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

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

This statue honoring the most decorated dog of World War I stands in a Connecticut park.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.