This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

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

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

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

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.