This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

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

A commemoration of child soldiers during a fearful battle of the Civil War.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

Amphibious mascots display a quirkier side to this luxury hotel's rich history.

Zipline through the deepest canyon in the eastern United States.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

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

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.