Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

Center filled with hands-on displays served as a tribute to several astronauts with connections to the state.

World's largest Christmas store.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

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

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

One of the earliest and best-preserved buildings in Charles County, Maryland.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The naval commander’s proudest moment in battle is memorialized in this unique tomb at Arlington Cemetery.

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

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.