Brandywine, Maryland
McKendree Cemetery
This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.
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Brandywine, Maryland
This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.
Lewes, Delaware
Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Washington, D.C.
This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."
Lakeland, Florida
If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.
Washington, D.C.
This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.
Arlington, Virginia
An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.
Milford, Pennsylvania
One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.
Princeton, New Jersey
The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.
Orlando, Florida
A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.
Washington, D.C.
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.
King Salmon, Alaska
In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.
Wall Township, New Jersey
The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Manchester Township, New Jersey
Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.
Rockford, Illinois
This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.
Anamosa, Iowa
Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.
Anaheim, California
Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.
Charles Town, West Virginia
This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.