The oldest church building in the state.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

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

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This historic Art Nouveau mansion has guided tours and impressive views of the Currituck Sound.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

Housing the history of a small Ohio town that is known to some as the pottery capital of the United States.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

A larger than life statue of a steelworker keeps watch over a closed steel mill.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

A collection of thousands of pieces of unique, colorful glass made in this Ohio town.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.