This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

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

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

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

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.