Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This roadside establishment in between Houston and the Louisiana border has the largest alligator in captivity

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

Soak in the sacred vibes at this beloved food and coffee hangout inside a former church.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Visit a section of the historic wall that once divided Berlin in the heart of Columbus, Ohio.

Jack White's record store is the only place in the world that records live shows direct-to-acetate.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

Alabama’s oldest and largest metaphysical shop.

Striking natural chalk bluffs that rise dramatically along the Tombigbee River.

Why would a Civil War general and president choose to be buried in a local Indianapolis graveyard and not Arlington National Cemetery?

Odd castle-like structures for collecting water sticking out of the Mississippi River.

A piece of I-45 graffiti has become one of Houston’s unofficial slogans.

After emancipation, former slaves paved the roads of their newly built settlement with these bricks.

Remnants of a forgotten ballpark where legend and infamy intersect.

This Rodin sculpture in Cleveland bears the lasting marks of a 1970 bombing.

Enjoy a brandy old fashioned with this petrified pet in a bar devoted to the local press.