The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

A secluded hilltop monument marks the final resting place of Lucy, Presidio Park's beloved white deer.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

This pole near the infield rail at Belmont Park marks the jaw-dropping margin of Secretariat’s 1973 Belmont Stakes victory.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

For more than two centuries, the canopy of this venerable tree has been a haven for songbirds and lovers.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.