A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

One of the oldest of its kind.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

After his presidency, George Washington planned to live only a few blocks from the Capitol building.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.