Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

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

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

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

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

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 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.

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

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

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

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

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.