Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cuypers Library
This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.
Newport News, Virginia
The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.
Yorktown, Virginia
The location where the American Revolution ended.
Yorktown, Virginia
This unassuming home played a pivotal role in American history, essentially putting an end to the Revolutionary War.
Yorktown, Virginia
A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.
Williamsburg, Virginia
History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”
Williamsburg, Virginia
Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Leesburg, Virginia
The house where Robert E. Lee planned the Battle of Antietam is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.
Baltimore, Maryland
The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Baltimore, Maryland
An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Baltimore, Maryland
It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”
Richmond, Virginia
This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Saltville, Virginia
This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.
Sandy Hook, Mississippi
One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.