Fredericksburg, Virginia
Shannon Air Museum
This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.
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Fredericksburg, Virginia
This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.
Herndon, Virginia
This former train station was once an important shipping depot for the regions farmers.
Roanoke, Virginia
This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.
Falls Church, Virginia
This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.
Leesburg, Virginia
The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.
Berryville, Virginia
A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.
Purcellville, Virginia
The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.
Norfolk, Virginia
A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.
Leesburg, Virginia
The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.
Fairfax, Virginia
The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.
Alexandria, Virginia
A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.
Arlington, Virginia
Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.
Alexandria, Virginia
Home to a 27 room house, this estate was crafted by Black entrepreneur Olander Banks Sr.
Charles City, Virginia
John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.
Arlington, Virginia
A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.
Smithfield, Virginia
This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.
Arlington, Virginia
Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.
Lynchburg, Virginia
The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.
Alexandria, Virginia
This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
Falls Church, Virginia
This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.
Newport News, Virginia
A collection of vehicles across American military history.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.
Arlington, Virginia
In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.