This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

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

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.