This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.