This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

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

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

America's first federal monument.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.