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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

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

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.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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.”

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.