The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.

This historic Ohio bridge is adorned with fanciful locks left behind by loving couples.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

A farmhouse where soldiers left their marks on the walls and attic

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

This rudder is one of the few remnants of a shipyard that once operated on the banks of the Potomac River.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

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.

One of the oldest continuous congregations organized by Black Americans has been flourishing for nearly 250 years.

Historic Lee family homestead built in 1785, later serving as a private home and a Civil War hospital.

The house where Robert E. Lee planned the Battle of Antietam is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.

Colonial Williamsburg was home to one of the earliest institutions in North America dedicated to educating Black children.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

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

Northern Virginia’s iconic Vietnamese shopping center.

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.