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

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

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

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

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

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

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Bizarre Cavern.

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

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.