An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The 34th governor of Kentucky was sworn into office while on his deathbed after being shot outside the State House.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

The historic home of an educator, abolitionist, activist, and poet.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

One of the oldest surviving bars in the United States, located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolution.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.