Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

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

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

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

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.