Places grahamjohnr Wants to Go

This plaque celebrates the sister city relationship between Fredricksburg and Fréjus.

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

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

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

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

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

America's first public mental health facility.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.