Alexandria, Virginia
Historic Huntley Plantation
The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.
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Alexandria, Virginia
The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.
Lorton, Virginia
This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."
Manassas, Virginia
Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.
Manassas, Virginia
This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.
Fairfax, Virginia
The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.
Nags Head, North Carolina
This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.
Manteo, North Carolina
The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.
Roanoke, Virginia
Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.
Manassas, Virginia
This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.
Great Falls, Virginia
The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.
Lorton, Virginia
This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.
Alexandria, Virginia
This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Lorton, Virginia
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.
Lorton, Virginia
The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Waldorf, Maryland
Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Locust Grove, Virginia
The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.
Fairfax, Virginia
A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.
Goldvein, Virginia
These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.
Alexandria, Virginia
The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.