The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.