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Alexandria, VA
Alexandria's Old Town historic district preserves one of the best-maintained collections of 18th- and early-19th-century architecture anywhere in the country, with cobblestone side streets and brick rowhouses that reflect the city's founding in 1749 as a colonial-era Potomac River port, predating the establishment of Washington, DC itself by more than four decades. George Washington's connection to Alexandria runs deep — Christ Church, built in the 1770s, was his family's regular place of worship, and his Mount Vernon estate sits just a few miles south along the river, making Alexandria a natural extension of the broader Washington historical landscape for visitors touring both sites. King Street, Old Town's main commercial corridor running from the Potomac waterfront up toward the King Street Metro station, has developed into one of the more walkable and restaurant-dense downtown districts in the DC suburban area, and a free trolley connects the waterfront to the Metro station specifically to make the roughly mile-long stretch easier to cover without a car. Served by the Blue and Yellow Metro lines, Alexandria's combination of exceptionally well-preserved colonial architecture, a direct historical connection to George Washington, and a genuinely walkable waterfront downtown has made Old Town one of the most historically significant and consistently visited close-in suburbs anywhere in the Washington metropolitan area.
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Arlington, VA
Arlington sits directly across the Potomac River from Washington, and Arlington National Cemetery, established in 1864 on land that once belonged to Robert E. Lee's family, has made the county home to one of the most solemn and frequently visited national landmarks in the entire country, including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the graves of more than 400,000 veterans and their families. The Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense and one of the largest office buildings in the world, sits within Arlington's borders as well, giving the county an outsized concentration of federal government and military-adjacent employment relative to its modest geographic size. Arlington's Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, developed deliberately around five Metro stations beginning in the 1970s, is frequently cited by urban planners nationally as one of the most successful examples of transit-oriented development in the United States — a string of dense, walkable mixed-use neighborhoods built specifically to cluster new growth directly around rail stations rather than letting it sprawl outward. Served by the Orange, Blue, and Silver Metro lines running through that same corridor, Arlington's combination of profound national historic and military significance and a genuinely successful, decades-long experiment in transit-oriented urban planning has made it one of the most studied and most livable close-in suburbs anywhere in the country.
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