One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

The oldest house in Washington, D.C. wasn't originally constructed in the nation's capital.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

One of the oldest surviving Swedish-American homes in the United States.