Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

The first hospital in the New World.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

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

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

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.

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

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.