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

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.

A small brick parlor house and artist's studio located in the wilderness is surrounded by imposing suburban palaces.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

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

A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.

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

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

The birthplace of the Herndon Gas Company.

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

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.

Dedicated to the neverending mathematical constant, this plaque next to a park bench was sponsored by an anonymous benefactor.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Palestinian-style savory breads and fine patisserie are served with a generous side of hospitality.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.