America's first public mental health facility.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

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

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

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

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

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

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

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

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

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

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The branches of this sprawling cedar tree are laden with wishes big and small.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

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

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.