This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Designed to honor the birthplace of Buddha.

A pair of stupas that archaeologists believe were built to honor the parents of Siddhartha Gautama (aka Lord Buddha).

This pilgrimage site was built to honor an incarnation of Buddha who sacrificed himself to save a tiger and her two cubs.

The site where Sakyamuni Buddha first met his father after achieving enlightenment.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

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.