The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This monument pays tribute to the city’s contribution to basketball history.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.