Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

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

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

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

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The national park was once a plantation estate.

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

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

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The oldest playground in America.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.