The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

An inclusive, climate-resilient playground honors the life of a young Boston Marathon bombing victim.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

These structures serve as a memorial to one of Boston’s most ambitious and controversial urban redevelopment projects.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.