This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

A condo complex once housed a boarding school with the 24th U.S. Vice President among its notable alumni.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.