San Juan, Puerto Rico
Old San Juan Cemetery
This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.
Warm Springs, Virginia
Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.
Dunmore, West Virginia
This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.
Covington, Virginia
The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.
Cass, West Virginia
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Washington, D.C.
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Hopewell, Virginia
For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.
Key West, Florida
Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.
Manassas, Virginia
This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.
Charleston, South Carolina
Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
Petros, Tennessee
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Falls Church, Virginia
These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.
Tappan, New York
This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
Alexandria, Virginia
Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.
Crownsville, Maryland
This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.
Washington, D.C.
Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.