Slated for demolition, this house was relocated piece by piece.

This site is believed to be connected to the oldest house in Arlington County.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

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

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

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.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

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.”

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

America's first public mental health facility.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

An amazing example of Federal-period architecture, truly unique to this region of the state.

The last remaining building in Washington, D.C., built by H.H. Richardson, one of America's most iconic architects.

The historic home of an educator, abolitionist, activist, and poet.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.