The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

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

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."