Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.