Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

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

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

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.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

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

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

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

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

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

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

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

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

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

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

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.