Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

America's first federal monument.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

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

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.