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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

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

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

The smallest covered bridge in Maryland.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.