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The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

This historic building is now home to the Public Access Corporation for the District of Columbia.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

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

Washington D.C.'s most famous pianist, composer, and bandleader still tickles the ivories outside Howard Theater.

The former home of Lillian Evans Tibbs and her grandson, Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., whose prodigious contributions to music and art spanned more than 90 years.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

The former home of the woman who successfully fought to integrate restaurants in Washington, D.C.

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.

The former home of elite checkers battles of the Capital Pool Checkers Club.

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

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

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.