Places riedermarcus Wants to Go

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The house where Robert E. Lee planned the Battle of Antietam is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.

A tavern that is no longer in Dranesville.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

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

The last tree on which Pioneer Daniel Boone carved that he "cilled" a bear during his journeys.

A rare example of pre-Revolutionary war Georgian-style architecture in Virginia's Piedmont region.

Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

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

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.