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

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

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

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

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

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

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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