This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

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

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

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

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

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

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

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

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

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

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

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.