Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

America's first federal monument.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

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

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

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

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.