A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

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

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

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

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

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.

Originally dubbed "Retirement" by the Navy Commodore who built it in 1780, this beautiful mansion is now the centerpiece of a suburban community park.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.