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.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

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

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

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

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

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

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

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

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

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

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.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

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.

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

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