Places sarahltait Wants to Go

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

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

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

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

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

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

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

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

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

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

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

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

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

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

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