The only remaining building from the original 1800 Isle of Wight Courthouse Complex

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

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

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

America's first public mental health facility.

Colonial Williamsburg was home to one of the earliest institutions in North America dedicated to educating Black children.

Some of the largest trees of their kinds exist throughout Williamsburg’s historic core.

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

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

A beautifully restored 19th-century house that’s possibly haunted.

In Oklahoma City's Bricktown, there's a street that don't use jelly.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

Though it's no longer a functioning train depot, this castle-like structure is an important piece of Oklahoma history.