A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

This former train station was once an important shipping depot for the regions farmers.

Northern Virginia’s iconic Vietnamese shopping center.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

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

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

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

Immersive exhibitions track Saint Petersburg’s past and present.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

The devil-defying mark left by a saint as a boy is visible inside Lisbon's cathedral.