A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The whole world in one water tank.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

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

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

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

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

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

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

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.