The home of a former Minor League baseball team that beat Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees in 1949.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

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

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

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

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.