This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

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

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

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

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

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

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.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

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

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

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

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

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

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

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

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

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.