On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A state park that once served as an important river crossing, and now offers protected lands for endangered plants and animals.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.