One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

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

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

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

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

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.