For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The world's largest rotating world.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.