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Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

In 1932, Americans honored their first president's 200th birthday by planting trees.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

The third-tallest lighthouse in the United States stands as a reminder of Atlantic City's early days.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

Political activist and writer Thomas Paine once lodged at this location.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

One of only two sites in the United States containing the remains of Buddha.

The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

This school was designed to support the rebuilding of African American schools around Delaware.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

This small hilltop church weaves the urban history of Washington, D.C. with the national history of the United States.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

Public opinion is still divided on this enormous sculpture in front of Baltimore's Penn Station.