Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

America's first federal monument.

This rudder is one of the few remnants of a shipyard that once operated on the banks of the Potomac River.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Historic Lee family homestead built in 1785, later serving as a private home and a Civil War hospital.

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

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

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

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

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

The only labyrinth within the city of Alexandria.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.