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The national park was once a plantation estate.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

Once damaged by Hurricane Agnes, this bridge is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

The first marker along the famous boundary.

A small ballpark on Maryland's eastern shore pays homage to its favorite son, the most fearsome home run hitter of the dead ball era.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

What if the Fountain of Youth was actually found in Delaware? One historic coastal town believes it to be true.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

This pole near the infield rail at Belmont Park marks the jaw-dropping margin of Secretariat’s 1973 Belmont Stakes victory.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.

The poet Walt Whitman was a frequent visitor to this spot, the highest on Long Island.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.