You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

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

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.