Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

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

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The picturesque southern city served as the zombie-filled town of Woodbury in 'The Walking Dead.'

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.