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

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

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

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

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

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

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

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

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

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

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

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.