Camp Peoria Civil War Marker

This small, 19th-century structure is all the remains of a once lively travelers' inn that General Robert E. Lee frequented.

It may no longer take overnight guests, but the Martin still makes out-of-towners feel at home—just like it has for the past century.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

This man's death led (indirectly) to Vermont's independence in 1777.

A famed admiral left behind this 17th-century house key when he joined the British Navy.