This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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

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

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Dedicated to a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was also a bird watcher and artist.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.