A massive white oak tree provides a beautiful canopy near a suburban shopping center and stood before the signing of the Constitution.

One of the last schoolhouses constructed in the early 20th-century still standing in Montgomery County.

Built in 1945, this historic train station has a new lease on life with its baggage area serving as an event space.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

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

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.