Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.