Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

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

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.