Scotland, Maryland
Point Lookout State Park
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
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Scotland, Maryland
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.
Nanjemoy, Maryland
The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Newport News, Virginia
The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.
Sutton, West Virginia
In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.
Warrenton, Virginia
This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.
Winchester, Virginia
The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.
Radford, Virginia
Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.
Blacksburg, Virginia
Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Quicksburg, Virginia
An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
New Market, Virginia
A commemoration of child soldiers during a fearful battle of the Civil War.
Gaithersburg, Maryland
This small cemetery remains hidden behind a recreation center.
Columbus, Ohio
The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.
Dublin, Ireland
A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.
Dresden, Germany
A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.
Ypres, Belgium
In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.
Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.
Herndon, Virginia
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.
Clover, Virginia
The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?
Denver, Colorado
One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.