Places TeamDD Wants to Go

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

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

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

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United 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.

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

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

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.

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

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

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

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

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.