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

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

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.

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

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

An original apothecary from 1792.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

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

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Built in 1815, the stabilized ruins of the grist mill and sawmill are now gated, but interpretive displays on the features and functions of the mill preserve its history.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.