For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

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

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

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

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

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