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Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

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

A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The last remaining pre-dreadnought battleship in the world has been a museum for nearly a century.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.