Monkton, Maryland
Ladew Topiary Gardens
This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.
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Monkton, Maryland
This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Arlington, Virginia
Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
Thurmont, Maryland
A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.
Cape May, New Jersey
The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.
Cape May, New Jersey
World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.
Washington, D.C.
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
College Park, Maryland
The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.
Washington, D.C.
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.
Lanham, Maryland
A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.
Jerusalem, Israel
Two innocuous monuments found in separate locations attempt to unite a city.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
St. Louis, Missouri
This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Takoma Park, Maryland
The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.
Quicksburg, Virginia
An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.