This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

America's first federal monument.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.