A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The final resting place of a circus performer who went by the pseudonym "General Tom Thumb."

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.