This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

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

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

America's first public mental health facility.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

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

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

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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

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

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

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

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

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

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

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