A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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