Places adamthehistorianghosthunter Wants to Go

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

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.