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

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

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

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

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

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

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

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

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

This small hilltop church weaves the urban history of Washington, D.C. with the national history of the United States.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States.