Northern Virginia’s iconic Vietnamese shopping center.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

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

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

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

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

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

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

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

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