These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

The singer, actor, and activist lived here during his final years, and now it’s a museum dedicated to his legacy.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

An antiquarian horologist’s mysterious home in Old Goucher.

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.