This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

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

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

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

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

America's first federal monument.

An original apothecary from 1792.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.