Cherokee, North Carolina
Mountain Farm Museum
Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.
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Cherokee, North Carolina
Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
Örencik, Turkey
This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Syria, Virginia
Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Alexandria, Virginia
The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.
Alexandria, Virginia
The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.
Alexandria, Virginia
America's first federal monument.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Richmond, Virginia
Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.
Richmond, Virginia
The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.
Washington, D.C.
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
Washington, D.C.
Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.
Washington, D.C.
There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.
Washington, D.C.
A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.
Washington, D.C.
A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.
Washington, D.C.
A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.
Washington, D.C.
There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.
Washington, D.C.
This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.
Ranier, Minnesota
This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.