America's first federal monument.

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

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

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

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

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

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

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.