Yorktown, Virginia
Cornwallis’ Cave
A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.
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Yorktown, Virginia
A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.
Norfolk, Virginia
An 83-foot tall granite obelisk honors the legacy of Dr. King in the heart of Norfolk's Black community.
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.
Smithfield, Virginia
This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.
Smithfield, Virginia
The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."
Norfolk, Virginia
The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.
Portsmouth, Virginia
A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.
Yorktown, Virginia
Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.
Manteo, North Carolina
The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.
Riverside, Ohio
Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.
Bellville, Ohio
This 35-foot-tall hamburger-toting chef is said to be the largest bobblehead in the world.
Norfolk, Virginia
A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.
Hampton, Virginia
This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.
Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.
Kaiserslautern, Germany
A team of concrete athletes stands in the middle of a traffic circle.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Heidelberg, Germany
Lines on the pillar of Heidelberg's Karl-Theodor Bridge record the dramatic heights of past floods.
Heidelberg, Germany
A larger-than-life monument to the inventor of the Bunsen burner.
Sterling, Virginia
These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.
Yorktown, Virginia
The location where the American Revolution ended.
Ouarzazate, Morocco
World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.
Ouarzazate, Morocco
The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.
Tamellalt, Morocco
Within the Dadès Gorge, amazing vistas and towering cliff faces can be seen at each new curve and bend in the road.