The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

In the heart of the Pine Barrens, entire forests of pitch pines that usually grow 20–90 feet tall only reach six feet in height.

This school was designed to support the rebuilding of African American schools around Delaware.

One of America's oldest continuously operating hotels offers a blend of rich history and historic architecture in the heart of Annapolis.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.