History in Virginia

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

The house where Robert E. Lee planned the Battle of Antietam is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.

Dine in a former general store from the Roaring Twenties, when Eggleston was a hot springs boomtown.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.

Named for a Greek oracle that interpreted the words of Zeus, this beautifully-restored manor home was once home to the architect of the Marshall Plan.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

A piece of the Ludendorff Bridge, also known as Remagan Bridge, calls this military base home.

The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.