This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

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

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

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

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.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

The rusting relics of Southampton's former luxurious flying boat industry.