This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

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

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

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

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

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.