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This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

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

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

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

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

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

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

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

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

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

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

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

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.