This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

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

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

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

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

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

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.