The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

A sprawling museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.