An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

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

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

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

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

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.