The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

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

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

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

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

This Civil War monument was designed by an eccentric architect and Gettysburg veteran.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."