This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.

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

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

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

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

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