This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

This bronze statue commemorates the life of the first Black American to publish a novel in the United States.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.