In the 19th century, this canal provided power to mills, machine shops, and other businesses in the area.

A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.