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

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

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

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

This library is designed to commemorate the work of the Human Genome Project.

According to local history, this cast-iron canine was nearly melted down for bullets during the Civil War.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

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

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

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

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

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

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A merry-go-round that became a rallying point for the early Civil Rights Movement.

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

Colonial Williamsburg was home to one of the earliest institutions in North America dedicated to educating Black children.

One of the oldest continuous congregations organized by Black Americans has been flourishing for nearly 250 years.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.