This historic building is now home to the Public Access Corporation for the District of Columbia.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

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

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

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

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

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

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

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

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