The longest Champagne Bar in Europe, if not the world

An 1830s street scene and roadside relics trace the country’s first great highway

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

A huge railroad museum with over 100 pieces of rolling stock focusing on the railroad history of Pennsylvania.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

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

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Inspired by the more famous Scrovegni Chapel, Cappella di San Giovanni contains several amazing frescoes.

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.