This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

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

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.