Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A collection of artifacts from two worldwide industries that called Endicott, NY home.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

An obscure federal monument honors the French diplomat who served as Ambassador to the U.S. during WWI.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.