Places sheinsis Wants to Go

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

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

A journey along this trail means indulging in a slice of nostalgia.

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

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

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.

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

A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.

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.

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

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.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

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

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.