An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

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

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

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

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

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

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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

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

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

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

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