Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

America's first public mental health facility.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

For over 70 years, this house was home to a pioneering Black artist and educator.

This house was once the location of Frelinghuysen University.

Dedicated to the man who created the first radio wave communication system.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

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

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.