The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

This turn of the century jail once held Charles Manson.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

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.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.