The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

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

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

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

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

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

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

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

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

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

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

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.