The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.