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

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

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

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

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

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

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

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

Designated as an Underground Railroad research site.

The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.

Named for a Greek oracle that interpreted the words of Zeus, this beautifully-restored manor home was once home to the architect of the Marshall Plan.

A different kind of swan princess.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.