Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

A replica of the famous memorial statue at the Normandy American Cemetery hides in an office building in downtown D.C.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.