Places thousandheads Wants to Go

This plaque celebrates the sister city relationship between Fredricksburg and Fréjus.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

In 1889, a small group of women began meeting to discuss literature, art, and other topics. Their every-other-week salon grew into a lending library that still exists today.

Northern Virginia’s iconic Vietnamese shopping center.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

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

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

The last early 20th-century schoolhouse in Fairfax County has galvanized the community and engendered a spirit of service among residents.

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

Home to a 27 room house, this estate was crafted by Black entrepreneur Olander Banks Sr.

This small pedestal marks the spot of the first lot of land sold in Alexandria, Virginia in 1749.

Dedicated to a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was also a bird watcher and artist.

The only labyrinth within the city of Alexandria.

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

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

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

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

The last vestige of a once substantial orchard and farm in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

Hidden in the forest atop a long, winding driveway is this stately home.

This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.