This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

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.

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

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

The world's longest known cave system.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.