An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

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

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.