This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

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

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

WWII-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers. .

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.