Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

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

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.