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

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

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

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

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

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

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

An 83-foot tall granite obelisk honors the legacy of Dr. King in the heart of Norfolk's Black community.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

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 hulking remains of the Leesburg Lime Company Kiln lie dormant behind a historical marker close to the W&OD trail.

This giant 200-year-old ginkgo is one of the largest in the United States.

The birthplace of the Herndon Gas Company.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

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

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

The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.

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

A piece of the Ludendorff Bridge, also known as Remagan Bridge, calls this military base home.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

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.

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.