Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."