Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

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

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.

The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.