Places judyyoung59 Wants to Go

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

The hulking remains of the Leesburg Lime Company Kiln lie dormant behind a historical marker close to the W&OD trail.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

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

Hidden in the forest atop a long, winding driveway is this stately home.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

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

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

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.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

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

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.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.