This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

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.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

Step into the courtroom to learn details of the only case in history where ghostly testimony led to a murderer's conviction.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.