Alexandria, Virginia
Pope-Leighey House
This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Alexandria, Virginia
This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Alexandria, Virginia
This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.
Richmond, Virginia
A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.
Alexandria, Virginia
This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.
Herndon, Virginia
An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.
Warrenton, Virginia
This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.
Fairfax, Virginia
Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
Alexandria, Virginia
The only place for a truly presidential dram.
Winchester, Virginia
The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.
Staunton, Virginia
The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.
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.
Arlington, Virginia
An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.
Faber, Virginia
Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.
Alexandria, Virginia
The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.
Barboursville, Virginia
The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.
Alexandria, Virginia
An original apothecary from 1792.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Mechanicsville, Virginia
The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.