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

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

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

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

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

An original apothecary from 1792.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

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

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

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?