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

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

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

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.