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

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

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

America's first federal monument.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

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

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

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

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

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

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

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

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.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.