The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

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.