One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

Hidden in the forest atop a long, winding driveway is this stately home.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.