A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

Marker for a long-gone electric trolley line that spurred the economic development of West Asheville.

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

The old building has been restored to its 1907 appearance.

On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

Scary stories haunt this wooden bridge.

A tavern that is no longer in Dranesville.

The house where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

This lifelike sculpture of a policeman serves as a helpful reminder to watch out for crossing pedestrians.

This stately Georgetown rowhouse was once the home of a 54-year-old diplomat and his 16-year-old bride.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

Constructed during the roaring 20s, this restored historic hotel recalls its past as home to the first in-hotel distillery.

Not all airplanes are found in hangars or on runways, but this wayward fuselage seems out of place in its odd rural resting place.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

After James Madison's death, his wife and former First Lady Dolley Madison lived in this yellow building near the White House.

This rowhouse doubles as one of the most photographed spots in the nation's capital.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

Fill your car with gas and your belly with mouthwatering Cuban cuisine at this takeaway inside a Citgo station.