Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

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

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."