Greensboro, North Carolina
Site of the Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
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Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Providence, Rhode Island
Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.
Hawaii
This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Amazing collection of over 2,000 live birds from around the world, many of which are rare or endangered.
Alexandria, Virginia
This rudder is one of the few remnants of a shipyard that once operated on the banks of the Potomac River.
Oxon Hill, Maryland
The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.
Baltimore, Maryland
This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.
Baltimore, Maryland
The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
Norfolk, Virginia
A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.