A remarkably well-preserved one room schoolhouse that dates back to 1876.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Public opinion is still divided on this enormous sculpture in front of Baltimore's Penn Station.

This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Cape Cod’s historic beacon made famous on a potato chip bag.