Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A local prank turned town icon.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.