This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

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

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

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.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

The naval commander’s proudest moment in battle is memorialized in this unique tomb at Arlington Cemetery.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

America's first public mental health facility.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.