This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

An amazing example of Federal-period architecture, truly unique to this region of the state.

The last remaining building in Washington, D.C., built by H.H. Richardson, one of America's most iconic architects.

The historic home of an educator, abolitionist, activist, and poet.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

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

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.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

This small cemetery remains hidden behind a recreation center.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

Its diverse collection of computers and technology spans the ages.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.