One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

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

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

The whole world in one water tank.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.