Arlington, Virginia
Headstone-Eating Trees
The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.
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Arlington, Virginia
The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.
Winchester, Virginia
The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.
Marion, Virginia
An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
Warsaw, Virginia
The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.
Richmond, Virginia
Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.
Alexandria, Virginia
This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.
Arlington, Virginia
An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.
Warm Springs, Virginia
Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.
McLean, Virginia
The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.
Broad Run, Virginia
This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.
Alexandria, Virginia
The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Lexington, Virginia
The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.
Locust Grove, Virginia
The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.
Barboursville, Virginia
The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.
Williamsburg, Virginia
America's first public mental health facility.
Lyndhurst, Virginia
This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.