William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

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

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

America's first public mental health facility.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.