This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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 eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.