Places sarahltait Wants to Go

The birthplace of the Herndon Gas Company.

This former train station was once an important shipping depot for the regions farmers.

A piece of the Ludendorff Bridge, also known as Remagan Bridge, calls this military base home.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

In 1889, a small group of women began meeting to discuss literature, art, and other topics. Their every-other-week salon grew into a lending library that still exists today.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.

One of the Treasury Building's original columns now sits as a garden monument in the middle of a busy military base.

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

Erosion has transformed this sandstone boulder into a massive dune-filled cavern.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

Dedicated to a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was also a bird watcher and artist.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

The only labyrinth within the city of Alexandria.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.