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

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

A local prank turned town icon.

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

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.

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

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

America's first federal monument.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.