This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.