This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

Take a trip to the past aboard a 1920s railcar or open flatcar for a scenic ride through Maryland farm country.

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

The location where the famed author and abolitionist began his journey to freedom.

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

According to local history, this cast-iron canine was nearly melted down for bullets during the Civil War.

This one-room schoolhouse played a significant role in the education of Black children for almost 100 years.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

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

Using a massive antenna made up of five miles of wire, two scientists tuned into organic radio waves from the planet Jupiter.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

This suburban park recalls the history of a famous tavern. Despite the name, it's no ordinary place!

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

The only public swimming pool in Baltimore open to Black Americans during segregation is now a permanent memorial art exhibit.

One of the oldest standing structures in Montgomery County, Maryland.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.