Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

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

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

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

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

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.

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

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

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

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.