A small brick parlor house and artist's studio located in the wilderness is surrounded by imposing suburban palaces.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Once damaged by Hurricane Agnes, this bridge is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

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

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

One of the earliest and best-preserved buildings in Charles County, Maryland.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

A state park that once served as an important river crossing, and now offers protected lands for endangered plants and animals.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

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

Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.