She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

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

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The location where the famed author and abolitionist began his journey to freedom.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

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

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.