This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

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

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