This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

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

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A local prank turned town icon.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

Yo, Adrian!

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.