This stately Georgetown rowhouse was once the home of a 54-year-old diplomat and his 16-year-old bride.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

This historic train depot transports visitors to an early 20th-century world before desegregation

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

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

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

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

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.

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

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

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

One of the Treasury Building's original columns now sits as a garden monument in the middle of a busy military base.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

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

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.