Places Andrewhunter Wants to Go

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Historic Lee family homestead built in 1785, later serving as a private home and a Civil War hospital.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.

A state park that once served as an important river crossing, and now offers protected lands for endangered plants and animals.

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

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

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

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.