Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

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.

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

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

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

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 old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

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

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

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

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

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

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

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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