Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Masonic Temple of Philadelphia
Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Washington, D.C.
A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.
Washington, D.C.
A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.
Washington, D.C.
This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."
Washington, D.C.
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.
Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.
Washington, D.C.
The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.
Arlington, Virginia
Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Waldorf, Maryland
Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
Alexandria, Virginia
The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.
Summerville, Georgia
Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.
Cumberland, Maryland
This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.
Herndon, Virginia
Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.
Buffalo Township, Ohio
The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.
Frankfort, Kentucky
This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Williamsburg, Virginia
America's first public mental health facility.
Locust Grove, Virginia
The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.