Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

America's first public mental health facility.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

An original apothecary from 1792.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.