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

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

The legacy of baseball great Roberto Clemente is preserved in a retired Pittsburgh fire station.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

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

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

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

In 1889, a small group of women began meeting to discuss literature, art, and other topics. Their every-other-week salon grew into a lending library that still exists today.

A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.