Places hopemch Wants to Go

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

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

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

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

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

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

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.