History in the United States

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

After his presidency, George Washington planned to live only a few blocks from the Capitol building.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.