This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Yorktown’s grandest colonial home still wears the scars of the siege that helped end the American Revolution.

Small indie movie theater that shows documentaries and unique films and has a cocktail bar with great drinks.

A commemoration of child soldiers during a fearful battle of the Civil War.

A steel skeleton is all that exists of what is supposed to be a replica of Noah's Ark

A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

Essential to the history of early American religious freedom and home to the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.

A centuries-old stone pagoda from Japan stands among cherry trees beside the National Mall Tidal Basin.

The former home of the "Father of Black History"

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

A merry-go-round that became a rallying point for the early Civil Rights Movement.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

One car at a time please.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.