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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

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

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

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

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

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.