St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.