One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

The whiskey producer's archives includes a historical list of infractions committed by and associated penalties exacted upon employees.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A museum dedicated to firefighting in a city that was crucial to the modern history of the profession.

Long abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

Legends say this red sandstone monolith and the dozens of smaller boulders that surround it were once a coven of witches—before a Scottish wizard turned them all to stone.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

During the American Revolutionary War, iron excavated from this mine was used to make swords, cannons, and more.