Places sarahltait Wants to Go

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

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

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

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

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

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

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

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.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

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

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

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.