A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.