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 first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.

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

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

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

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.

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

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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.

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

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.