Baltimore, Maryland
The Horse You Came In On Saloon
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
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Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Baltimore, Maryland
A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.
Baltimore, Maryland
Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.
Lewes, Delaware
A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.
Milton, Delaware
What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaĂĽs for a brewery's employees.
Milton, Delaware
A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.
Lewes, Delaware
World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.
Wilmington, Delaware
This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.
Lewes, Delaware
Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.
Lewes, Delaware
The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.
Dover, Delaware
Museum houses an impressive display of the origin and artistry from the now-quaint invention's history.
Orrtanna, Pennsylvania
An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.
Darlington, Maryland
Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.
Landenberg, Pennsylvania
The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
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.
Jefferson, Maryland
One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.