Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

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

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.