Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

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.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

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

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

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

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

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

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.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

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

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.