The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

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

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

Home to a 27 room house, this estate was crafted by Black entrepreneur Olander Banks Sr.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

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

This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

A preserved 18th century homestead in Western Pennsylvania marks the spot where the Whiskey Rebellion began.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.