Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The birthplace of the Herndon Gas Company.

This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.

Designated as an Underground Railroad research site.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

This site is believed to be connected to the oldest house in Arlington County.

The last vestige of a once substantial orchard and farm in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

This small pedestal marks the spot of the first lot of land sold in Alexandria, Virginia in 1749.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

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