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The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

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

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

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

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.