Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Civil War Graffiti
Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This Civil War monument was designed by an eccentric architect and Gettysburg veteran.
Murphy, North Carolina
This remarkable 125-year-old building has survived a bank heist, a rooftop dragon, and more than a century of changing businesses; today, it lives on as FairyCross Bottle Shop.
Morristown, New Jersey
A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.
Toddville, Maryland
After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.
Saint Mary's City, Maryland
A tribute to the forgotten origins of American religious freedom.
Norlina, North Carolina
The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.
Charlotte, North Carolina
This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.
Charlotte, North Carolina
An elephant is carved onto the gravestone of a man who was crushed by one.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.
Savannah, Georgia
An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.
Savannah, Georgia
This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.
Thunderbolt, Georgia
A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."
Savannah, Georgia
More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.
Savannah, Georgia
A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.
Savannah, Georgia
A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.
Savannah, Georgia
"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
Savannah, Georgia
This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”