American Revolution

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

The humble fort that saved Washington.