A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Historic Lee family homestead built in 1785, later serving as a private home and a Civil War hospital.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

Amphibious mascots display a quirkier side to this luxury hotel's rich history.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

This small pedestal marks the spot of the first lot of land sold in Alexandria, Virginia in 1749.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

This Connecticut ferry has been operating in some form since 1655.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.