Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

Two statues of the fictitious toy robots that ran afoul of local government

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

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

An unkempt, oddly placed piece of land keeps an elderly farming couple in a residential area.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.

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

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

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

An 18th-century townhouse that once hosted guests of the president.