This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

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.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

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

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

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

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

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

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

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