Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

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

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.