An office built to look like a giant basket.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

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

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

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

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."