An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

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

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.