The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Experience the pivotal Civil War battle at this interactive museum.

Feel what it would have been like to live in Gettysburg during the pivotal Civil War battle.

This house of worship contains a dozen stained glass windows by a renowned manufacturer

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

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

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

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

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.