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

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

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

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

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

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

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

The naval commander’s proudest moment in battle is memorialized in this unique tomb at Arlington Cemetery.

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

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

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

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

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

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

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

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

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

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

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

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.