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Pohick Church (2019)

Lorton, Virginia

Pohick Church

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

Exterior of prison buildings.

Lorton, Virginia

Lucy Burns Museum

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

Stoney Lonesome Cemetery, 2019.
Permanently Closed

Lorton, Virginia

Stoney Lonesome Cemetery

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

Sealed underground elements at Lorton Nike Missile Site.

Lorton, Virginia

Nike Missile Site W-64

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

Hearth at Barrett House.

Lorton, Virginia

Barrett House

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

Barrel Arch Bridge

Lorton, Virginia

Barrel Arch Bridge

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

Turning Point Plaza viewed from the back side of the memorial

Lorton, Virginia

Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

Beehive Brick Kiln

Lorton, Virginia

Beehive Brick Kiln

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

Sleeping steel in the snow

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Hoover-Mason Trestle

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

1758 Sun Inn

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1758 Sun Inn

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

The Moravian Book Shop

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Moravian Book Shop

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

The former site of the inn is now a municipal plaza named Seaford Gateway Park.

Seaford, Delaware

Site of the Tilly Escape

In October 1856, Harriet Tubman escaped arrest at this site while attempting to reunite an enslaved woman named Tilly with her fiancé.

Looking up at the Highball Signal.

Delmar, Delaware

Highball Signal

This relic is one of the last survivors of the earliest eras of the American railroad.

Landmark on the Sound

Des Moines, Washington

Landmark on the Sound

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

Untitled (Johnson Pit #30)

Kent, Washington

Untitled (Johnson Pit #30)

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

Renton Public Library

Renton, Washington

Renton Public Library

This unique library spans a mighty river.

Jimi Hendrix Memorial

Renton, Washington

Jimi Hendrix Memorial

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Mount Rainier

Ashford, Washington

Mount Rainier

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Thunder Dome Car Museum

Enumclaw, Washington

Thunder Dome Car Museum

A sun-filled museum featuring an ever-rotating collection of classic and exotic cars.

Lenin Statue of Fremont

Seattle, Washington

Lenin Statue of Fremont

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

With a building in the background

Seattle, Washington

Center of the Universe Sign

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Instruments at Dusty Strings

Seattle, Washington

Dusty Strings

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

Julius Pierpont Patches

Seattle, Washington

J.P. Patches Statue

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Berlin wall piece December 2023

Seattle, Washington

Piece of the Berlin Wall at Cafe Turko

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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