A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

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

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

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

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

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

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

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

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

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.