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Grayling, MI
At the top of Mount Franklin in Hanson Hills is an exceptionally small military cemetery containing only two marked servicemen's graves. The fenced plot is maintained in connection with Camp Grayling and can be reached on foot through the public recreation area.
Red Cliff, CO
Concrete foundations and other traces of the enormous World War II mountain-warfare training camp remain in the Eagle River valley. The landscape is now protected within Camp Hale–Continental Divide National Monument and can be explored from designated public roads and trails.
Cresskill, NJ
A 66-foot granite obelisk stands in a traffic circle near the center of the former Camp Merritt, the enormous World War I embarkation camp through which more than a million people passed. The monument especially remembers hundreds who died during the 1918 influenza epidemic.
Jacksonville, FL
Preserved Civil War earthworks from the largest Confederate encampment in Florida.
Hardwick Township, NJ
This active Scout camp served as the primary filming location for the original 1980 Friday the 13th, standing in for Camp Crystal Lake. It is private property and closed to casual visitors, but officially sanctioned Crystal Lake Tours provide limited public access on specific dates.
Almo, ID
Prominent granite outcrop where nineteenth-century emigrants left names and dates along the California Trail. Do not add marks, chalk or rub historic inscriptions.
Toccoa, GA
The training ground made famous by the paratroopers who ran 'three miles up, three miles down' Currahee Mountain has been preserved as a historic site. Reconstructed buildings, memorials and trails connect directly to the World War II airborne units trained here.
Candelaria, NV
A remote silver-mining district contains ruins, foundations, cemetery traces, and later mine disturbance; stay clear of active claims and unstable workings.
Macon, GA
This Greek Revival home takes its modern name from damage caused by a Union artillery shell during the 1864 Battle of Dunlap Hill. Period rooms and surviving history turn the building into a rare civilian-scale remnant of wartime Macon.
Lewes, DE
This historic house still carries physical evidence of the British bombardment of Lewes in April 1813. A cannonball associated with the attack is preserved inside, turning a quiet house museum into one of Delaware's clearest pieces of visible War of 1812 damage.
Elizabethtown, KY
A Confederate artillery shell struck a downtown building during the Civil War fighting at Elizabethtown in 1862. When the original structure burned in 1887, the cannonball was recovered and deliberately placed into the replacement building near its approximate original impact point, where it remains visible from the square.
Crosswicks, NJ
A Revolutionary War cannonball remains mortared into the second-story brick wall of the 1773 Crosswicks Friends Meeting House. Both British and American forces were exchanging fire in the area in June 1778, so exactly which side fired the embedded shot is uncertain.
Ottumwa, IA
This tiny diner is famous for loose-meat sandwiches and a horseshoe-shaped counter squeezed into a narrow downtown building. Its alley entrance and nearly unchanged interior make eating there feel like stepping into a preserved roadside-food time capsule.
Port Orford, OR
Perched on Oregon's westernmost headland, the 1870 lighthouse overlooks a remote stretch of coast; tours and access are seasonal and weather-dependent.
Key Biscayne, FL
Historic lighthouse attacked during the Second Seminole War and rebuilt multiple times.
Lower Township, NJ
The 1859 Cape May Lighthouse rises 157 feet above the southern New Jersey coast and can be climbed by visitors during operating hours. Its 199 steps lead to a panoramic view over Cape May Point State Park and the surrounding shoreline.
Cape Meares, OR
Oregon's shortest lighthouse tower stands on a dramatic headland and still holds its historic first-order Fresnel lens; interior access follows posted seasonal hours.
Georgetown, CO
A guided underground tour follows an original mine adit into Griffith Mountain above Georgetown. Reservations are important, and the stop is about controlled mine access rather than wandering historic workings independently.
Washington, DC
A small street designation marks the area where dinosaur bones were uncovered in the 19th century, inspiring D.C.'s official dinosaur, Capitalsaurus.
Capitol City, CO
Scattered structures and ruins mark the former silver town once promoted as a potential Colorado capital. Reaching it requires a rough mountain road south of Engineer Pass country, making conditions and vehicle capability part of the visit.
Torrey, UT
Boardwalks along State Route 24 lead directly to Fremont petroglyphs depicting bighorn sheep and distinctive human figures. It is one of the state's easiest major rock-art stops to visit lawfully.
Macon, GA
The restored recording studio associated with the Allman Brothers Band and the rise of Southern rock now combines active studio space with a museum. Original equipment, recordings and memorabilia preserve the atmosphere of a place where a distinct regional sound was built.
Captain Cook, HI
A white obelisk marks the area where British explorer James Cook was killed in 1779 after relations with Hawaiians deteriorated. The monument is not directly reachable by road; visitors arrive by a strenuous trail or lawful water access and should understand the surrounding bay as a significant Hawaiian cultural landscape.
Rockport, ME
Rockport honors sea captain Hanson Gregory, who is locally credited with inventing the hole in the center of the doughnut in 1847. A small monument marks the story, turning a piece of disputed food history into a routeable roadside stop.
