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.

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

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

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

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

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

America's first public mental health facility.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

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

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

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

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

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

Once home to more than 50 displays of freshwater fish.

On the upper deck of this church-owned parking garage stand eight pillars topped with different Catholic saints.

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.