Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A massive white oak tree provides a beautiful canopy near a suburban shopping center and stood before the signing of the Constitution.

This small cemetery remains hidden behind a recreation center.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

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

One of only two sites in the United States containing the remains of Buddha.

Named for a Greek oracle that interpreted the words of Zeus, this beautifully-restored manor home was once home to the architect of the Marshall Plan.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

Visitors to Salt Springs State Park are encouraged to literally put their two cents in Penny Rock.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

Surrounded by traditional homes, this Tolkien-esque dwelling stands out on a quiet street in suburban Maryland.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.