An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

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

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

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

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.