The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

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

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

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

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

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

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

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

America's first federal monument.

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

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

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

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

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.