A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

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

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.