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

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

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.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

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

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

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

America's first federal monument.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

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

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.