Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

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

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

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 bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

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

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

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

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

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

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

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

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

The oldest house in Washington, D.C. wasn't originally constructed in the nation's capital.

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.