An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

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

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

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.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

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

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

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

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

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

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

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

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

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.