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

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

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

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

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

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

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

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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

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

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

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