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This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

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 hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

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

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.