A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

A centuries-old stone pagoda from Japan stands among cherry trees beside the National Mall Tidal Basin.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This historic Art Nouveau mansion has guided tours and impressive views of the Currituck Sound.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.