The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

Hidden in the forest atop a long, winding driveway is this stately home.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

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

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 cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.