Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

This small pedestal marks the spot of the first lot of land sold in Alexandria, Virginia in 1749.

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.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

An original apothecary from 1792.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.