The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

Giant money stones of Yap.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.