This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

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

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.