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

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

The branches of this sprawling cedar tree are laden with wishes big and small.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

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

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

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

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

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

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

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

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

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

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.

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.