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A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.

Visit one, or all six, of the stops on this tour of a North Carolina signature sweet.

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

A collection of abstract sculptures by a former tobacco auctioneer turned outsider artist.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

A rare example of pre-Revolutionary war Georgian-style architecture in Virginia's Piedmont region.

A centuries-old Virginia mill pond is also an outdoor classroom where history is told through recipes.

Yorktown’s grandest colonial home still wears the scars of the siege that helped end the American Revolution.

Some museums preserve beautiful things; this museum preserves hard work.

This park offers one of the easiest ways to paddle into a Chesapeake landscape that has looked much the same for centuries.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.