This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

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

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.