A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

America's first public mental health facility.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

America's first federal monument.

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

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.