The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

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

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

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

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

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.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

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

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

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

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

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.