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A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The birthplace of the alleged inventor of baseball.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

This remote Moravian mission brought Christianity—as well as devastation—to the Inuit people.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

A sad reminder of the World War II bombing stands largely unnoticed on a street corner.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.