Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
Charles Town, West Virginia
This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.
Saint Mary's City, Maryland
A tribute to the forgotten origins of American religious freedom.
Washington, D.C.
Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Haddonfield, New Jersey
The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.
Ellicott City, Maryland
An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.
Annapolis, Maryland
A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Tampa, Florida
A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.
Washington, D.C.
Home to items never before seen by the public.
Lusby, Maryland
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
Leonardtown, Maryland
The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.