The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

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

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

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.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

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

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

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.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

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

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

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

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.