Places mmhales Wants to Go

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

An unkempt, oddly placed piece of land keeps an elderly farming couple in a residential area.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

Small indie movie theater that shows documentaries and unique films and has a cocktail bar with great drinks.

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

This one-time communal home of radical feminist activists was the first lesbian-related landmark on both the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites and the National Register of Historic Places

For over 70 years, this house was home to a pioneering Black artist and educator.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

This tiny, one-acre cemetery serves as a reminder of when the Civil War got close to the nation’s capitol.

Beneath unsuspecting visitors feet, a capsule containing pieces of America’s civil rights history.

The former home of the woman who successfully fought to integrate restaurants in Washington, D.C.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.