Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This hidden treasure provides a charming access point along the south side of Baker Park.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.