Things in VA/MD

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.