Places Edited by Ian Hall

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

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.