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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

This mighty white oak in Bethesda survived both the American Revolution and the construction of Washington D.C.'s metro red line.