Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

The branches of this sprawling cedar tree are laden with wishes big and small.

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.