An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.

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

The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.

This suburban park recalls the history of a famous tavern. Despite the name, it's no ordinary place!

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

One of the last schoolhouses constructed in the early 20th-century still standing in Montgomery County.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

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

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

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.

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

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."