An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

Always a new use for this old building.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The smallest covered bridge in Maryland.

First built around 1848, this bridge was destroyed by arson, but original timbers are included in the replacement.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

One of the oldest standing structures in Montgomery County, Maryland.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.