Places cacoulter Wants to Go

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

The only remaining building from the original 1800 Isle of Wight Courthouse Complex

One of the oldest continuous congregations organized by Black Americans has been flourishing for nearly 250 years.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

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

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.