A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

This central Florida farm is the largest producer of these little golden fruits in the United States.

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

The farm where one of America's most famous folk artists created her paintings.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

A memorial to an ill-fated Arctic expedition pursued by the U.S. Navy.

The final resting place of a physician rescued during the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.