Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

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

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

An original apothecary from 1792.

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

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

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.