A local prank turned town icon.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

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

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The naval commander’s proudest moment in battle is memorialized in this unique tomb at Arlington Cemetery.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

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.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.