This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

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

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

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

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

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.