Emmitsburg, Maryland
National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
The home and final resting place of the first native-born American saint
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Emmitsburg, Maryland
The home and final resting place of the first native-born American saint
Brattleboro, Vermont
Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.
Norton, Massachusetts
Ghostly specters are said to haunt this secluded cave where a famed Wampanoag leader spent the final days of his life.
Concord, Massachusetts
One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.
Concord, Massachusetts
The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.
Concord, Massachusetts
The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.
Portland, Maine
A bronze sculpture in the heart of Portland represents Maine’s most defining industry.
Carroll, New Hampshire
A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.
Bartlett, New Hampshire
This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.
Florida, Massachusetts
Time has expired for eternity at this gravesite with a sense of humor.
Savannah, Georgia
The childhood home of the award-winning novelist and short story writer.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Bellaire, Texas
A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.
Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.