Clinton, Tennessee
Clinton 12 Statue at Green McAdoo Cultural Center
A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.
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Clinton, Tennessee
A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.
Delmar, Maryland
The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.
Arlington, Virginia
Right next to departures—how convenient!
Arlington, Virginia
The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.
Arlington, Virginia
The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.
Arlington, Virginia
Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Houston, Texas
The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.
Yucca, Arizona
This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.
Fort Stockton, Texas
The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.
Overland Park, Kansas
Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.
Brooklyn, New York
This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.
Washington, D.C.
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
Los Angeles, California
Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
South Bend, Indiana
The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.