The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

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

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

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

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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.

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

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

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

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."