Grasonville, Maryland
Maryland Watermen's Monument
This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Lewes, Delaware
Zwaanendael Museum
A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.
Lewes, Delaware
Lewes Town Clock
Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.
Lewes, Delaware
The Cannonball House
The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.
Knoxville, Maryland
The Sign Above the Tunnel
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Lewes, Delaware
Bunkers of Cape Henlopen State Park
World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.
Lewes, Delaware
Menhaden Fishing Net Reel
This controversial reel is an artifact of the largest fish processing plant in the country, and a symbol of Delaware's integration.
Lewes, Delaware
Sussex Tavern at Rabbit’s Ferry House
Sip colonial-era cocktails at this monthly recreation of a 1740 watering hole.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Mackinac Island
Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.
Washington, D.C.
International Spy Museum
Home to items never before seen by the public.
Washington, D.C.
International Temple of the Order of the Eastern Star
Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.
Washington, D.C.
Letelier-Moffitt Monument
A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.
Washington, D.C.
Dumbarton Bridge
This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.
Washington, D.C.
Taras Shevchenko Memorial
A small park honors the legendary Ukrainian poet.
Washington, D.C.
Embassy Gulf Service Center
Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.
Washington, D.C.
Rush-Bagot Monument
An overlooked tribute to one of the most important peace deals in American history.
Silver Spring, Maryland
National Park Seminary
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Kensington, Maryland
Washington, D.C. Temple
The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.
Milton, Delaware
Steampunk Tree House
What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Polychrome Historic District
These five Art Deco homes were meant to solve the "small house problem."
Silver Spring, Maryland
Wheaton Station Escalator
The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.
Silver Spring, Maryland
National Museum of Health and Medicine
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Fairfax, Virginia
Thompson Family Cemetery
A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.
