Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

Home to a 27 room house, this estate was crafted by Black entrepreneur Olander Banks Sr.

The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

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

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

The naval commander’s proudest moment in battle is memorialized in this unique tomb at Arlington Cemetery.

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

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

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.