Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

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

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

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

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

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

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

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

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

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

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.

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

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