The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

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The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

The singer, actor, and activist lived here during his final years, and now it’s a museum dedicated to his legacy.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

A small museum along the Susquehanna River is home to a rich collection of Native American artifacts.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.