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

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

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

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

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

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

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

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

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

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

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.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.