This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

A piece of the Ludendorff Bridge, also known as Remagan Bridge, calls this military base home.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

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

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

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

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

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

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

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

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

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.

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

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.