Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

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

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

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

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

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

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

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.

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

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

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

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.