The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

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

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

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

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

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

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.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

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