Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

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

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

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

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

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

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

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

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

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

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

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.