For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

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

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.