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On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

This site is believed to be connected to the oldest house in Arlington County.

Originally dubbed "Retirement" by the Navy Commodore who built it in 1780, this beautiful mansion is now the centerpiece of a suburban community park.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

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

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

The branches of this sprawling cedar tree are laden with wishes big and small.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

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

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

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

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

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

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.