America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

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

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

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

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

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