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

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

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

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

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

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

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

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

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

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

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

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.