The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

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

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This 15-foot tall obelisk commemorating the Philadelphia-Baltimore railroad connection sat neglected for over a century.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.