An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

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

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

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

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

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The site of the Scopes Trial contains a small exhibit dedicated to the famous case.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.