The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

World's largest Christmas store.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.