A colorful street mural created in downtown Vista by world-renowned spray-paint artist Chor Boogie (Jason Hailey), who grew up in the area.

This lifelike sculpture of a policeman serves as a helpful reminder to watch out for crossing pedestrians.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

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

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

A small brick parlor house and artist's studio located in the wilderness is surrounded by imposing suburban palaces.

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

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

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.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

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.

This former train station was once an important shipping depot for the regions farmers.

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.

A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

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

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

A tavern that is no longer in Dranesville.