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

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

This plaque celebrates the sister city relationship between Fredricksburg and Fréjus.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

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

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

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

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

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

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

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

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