Places Added by Sydney Rose

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

The memorial honors the lives of rhinoceroses killed by poachers.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

The oldest church in Inverness witnessed the brutal executions of many Scottish soldiers.

It's believed this well was once plagued with evil spirits until St. Columba purified the water.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

After 800 years, Europe's oldest elm tree has met its end.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

A touching tribute to the "Wonky Donkey."

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

A secluded hilltop monument marks the final resting place of Lucy, Presidio Park's beloved white deer.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

This pole near the infield rail at Belmont Park marks the jaw-dropping margin of Secretariat’s 1973 Belmont Stakes victory.