The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

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

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

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

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

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

America's first public mental health facility.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

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

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

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.