An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

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

Yo, Adrian!

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.