Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.