A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

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

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

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

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.