The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.

In 1889, a small group of women began meeting to discuss literature, art, and other topics. Their every-other-week salon grew into a lending library that still exists today.

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

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 Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.

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.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

The final resting place of a physician rescued during the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

The only labyrinth within the city of Alexandria.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

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

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

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

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.