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The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

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

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

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

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

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.