This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

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

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

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.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

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.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

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

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

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

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

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

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

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

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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.”

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

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

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

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

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