Lake Junaluska, North Carolina
World Methodist Museum
Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.
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Lake Junaluska, North Carolina
Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.
Winter Park, Colorado
Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.
Pasadena, California
The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.
Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania
A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.
Salina, Utah
Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
Jersey City, New Jersey
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.
Oxnard, California
French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.
Boston, Massachusetts
A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.
Rochester, New York
Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.
Dillon, Montana
The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.
Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi
This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.
Ehrenberg, Arizona
The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.
Downieville, California
Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.
Bangor, Maine
Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.
Batavia, New York
A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.
Harrodsburg, Kentucky
A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.
Lewis, New York
A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.
Brooklyn, New York
A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.
Hammondsport, New York
Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.
Rayne, Louisiana
The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.