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

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

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

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

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

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

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

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

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

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

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

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

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

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