A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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 iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

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

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

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

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.