The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

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

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

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

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.