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The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

The historic home of an educator, abolitionist, activist, and poet.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

One of the oldest surviving bars in the United States, located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolution.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.