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This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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 ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

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

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

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.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

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

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.

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

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.