This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

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