One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

America's first federal monument.

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

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

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

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

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

An original apothecary from 1792.

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

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

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

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