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Montezuma County, CO
Hackberry is the largest complex in Hovenweep and remains culturally significant to descendant Pueblo communities. It shares the rough access corridor with Horseshoe and should be visited respectfully from the established trail only.
Haddonfield, NJ
A small wooded ravine marks the location where bones of Hadrosaurus foulkii were uncovered in 1858. The find became one of the first nearly complete dinosaur skeletons discovered and scientifically described in North America.
Charlemont, MA
A bronze Native American figure faces east with outstretched arms beside the Mohawk Trail. Installed in 1932, the monument was created by the Improved Order of Red Men and reflects an older, non-Native fraternal interpretation of Indigenous imagery, making its history more complicated than the striking roadside silhouette suggests.
Hālawa, HI
One of Molokaʻi's oldest continuously inhabited cultural landscapes contains taro lands, archaeological sites, waterfalls, and family-owned property deep in a dramatic valley. The hiking route crosses private land and should be entered only with an authorized local guide or explicit permission.
Washington, DC
This imposing Georgetown mansion has accumulated generations of ghost stories and architectural lore; it is private property, so only view from public space.
Haleʻiwa, HI
Waimea Valley preserves multiple Native Hawaiian cultural sites, including Hale o Lono, a heiau dedicated to Lono and dated by the organization to around the fifteenth century. It remains a living cultural place inside a ticketed botanical and heritage site.
Wailuku, HI
Two important heiau survive on ridges above central Maui and were rededicated as war temples by Kahekili, Maui's last independent ruling chief. The site is open during daylight but remains a protected cultural landscape; visitors should stay off walls and platforms.
Key Biscayne, FL
German-built racing yacht later used as a Miami floating saloon before wrecking off Key Biscayne around 1930.
Excelsior Springs, MO
This monumental Art Deco building once collected multiple types of mineral water under one roof and contained baths, treatment rooms, pools and a famously long water bar. Some areas remain closed or restricted, but museum and visitor spaces preserve the strange history of Excelsior Springs as a medical-water resort.
Hamilton, NV
Stone walls, foundations, and mining debris scatter across the former White Pine silver capital; the townsite is remote and contains dangerous abandoned workings.
Wilson, AR
The museum displays artifacts from the nearby Nodena site, a major Mississippian settlement. Pottery, tools and human-scale reconstructions reveal a sophisticated culture that flourished in the Delta before European contact.
Honolulu, HI
This 1848 house became the mountain retreat of Queen Emma, Kamehameha IV, and their son Prince Albert Edward. The Daughters of Hawaiʻi preserve royal furnishings and personal objects inside; tours and access follow the site's posted schedule.
Hancocks Bridge, NJ
British and Loyalist troops stormed this house in March 1778 and killed roughly two dozen people inside during the Hancock's Bridge massacre. The preserved eighteenth-century building operates as a state historic site with limited tour hours.
Louisville, KY
George Anne Sotsky's Cave Hill Cemetery monument takes the form of an enormous open stone hand with its palm facing upward. The gesture symbolizes generosity and creates one of the cemetery's strangest pieces of funerary sculpture.
Goliad, TX
A large live oak beside the courthouse is traditionally associated with frontier-era hangings and vigilante justice.
Georgiana, AL
Hank Williams lived in this house as a child and began developing the musical skills that would define his career. The museum preserves family history, memorabilia and the local story of his early guitar lessons.
Oak Hill, WV
A small monument in Oak Hill marks the city where driver Charles Carr discovered that country singer Hank Williams had died in the back seat of his Cadillac on New Year's Day 1953. The marker gives travelers a physical stop tied to one of American music's most famous and grim road-trip stories.
Montgomery, AL
Hank Williams and his wife Audrey are buried beneath large white marble monuments in Oakwood Cemetery Annex. The graves have become a music-history pilgrimage site; visitors should observe cemetery hours and treat surrounding burials respectfully.
Montgomery, AL
The museum preserves stage clothing, instruments, records, photographs and personal objects tied to Hank Williams. Its collection includes the Cadillac associated with his final journey, making it a particularly tangible stop for country-music history.
Boscawen, NH
A 35-foot monument commemorates Hannah Duston, who was taken captive during King William's War in 1697 and later killed ten Abenaki people at a camp before escaping. The nineteenth-century monument presents one version of a violent colonial story whose interpretation has become increasingly contested. The state historic site is currently listed as always open for recreation.
Bangor, ME
Bangor Public Library displays the couch on which Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president, died in 1891. Rather than being hidden away in storage, the piece of furniture survives as an unusually direct artifact from a former vice president’s final moments.
Scotia, NE
A former chalk mine cuts horizontally into Happy Jack Peak, creating a rare public underground room-and-pillar mine in Nebraska. Guided or seasonal access reveals the pale chalk walls and industrial excavation while the surrounding peak provides trails and views.
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
This preserved farm centers on an Italianate mansion, nineteenth-century outbuildings and the history of the families who lived and worked there. Its position directly beside the Nacoochee mound gives OddWay travelers two visually distinctive historic layers in a single stop.
New Ulm, MN
A preserved 1870s general store stands where a river town once expected the railroad to bring prosperity before the line bypassed it. The building is currently closed to normal interior visitation, but the historic grounds remain a tangible remnant of a community left behind.
