A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.

The Gulf’s longest fishing pier is a year-round paradise for catch-and-release whoppers.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A commemoration of child soldiers during a fearful battle of the Civil War.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

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

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

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

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.