This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

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

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

America's first federal monument.

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

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

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

America's first public mental health facility.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

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

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

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

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