Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

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

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

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

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.