A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

The last early 20th-century schoolhouse in Fairfax County has galvanized the community and engendered a spirit of service among residents.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

This marker at the entrance to the Humphreys Engineer Center honors the former Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.