The national park was once a plantation estate.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.