Places thousandheads Wants to Go

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The parking lot of a northern Virginia shopping center is host to a monument to Korea’s greatest naval commander, to include a scale model replica of the Turtle Boat he made famous.

A farmhouse where soldiers left their marks on the walls and attic

Two columns and a path leading into the woods at Fort Bennett Park are all that remain of a custom-built, Bavarian-inspired castle

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

A tavern that is no longer in Dranesville.

This rudder is one of the few remnants of a shipyard that once operated on the banks of the Potomac River.

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

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.

An unkempt, oddly placed piece of land keeps an elderly farming couple in a residential area.

Historic Lee family homestead built in 1785, later serving as a private home and a Civil War hospital.

This marker at the entrance to the Humphreys Engineer Center honors the former Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers.

A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

This millstone-topped marker details the history of a mill that served as a landmark for both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.

The birthplace of the Herndon Gas Company.

In 1932, Americans honored their first president's 200th birthday by planting trees.