One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

A touching tribute to a local hero who made sure his neighborhood stayed clean.

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

A set of rowhouses built for laborers at a glass company are the last of their kind in Annapolis.

Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

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

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.