Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

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

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

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

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

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

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

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

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

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.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

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.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

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

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.