Carthage, Texas
Last Remaining Boundary Marker for the Republic of Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
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Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.
Dallas, Texas
A symbol of Texas pride.
Astoria, Oregon
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.
Tuskegee, Alabama
Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yo, Adrian!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.
East Haddam, Connecticut
One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.
Abilene, Kansas
Celebrating the cultural heritage of Kansas’s premier cowtown.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.
Boulder City, Nevada
These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Paris, France
This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.
Paris, France
A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.
Paris, France
The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.