The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

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

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.