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

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

America's first public mental health facility.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

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

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.