Places ch1k822 Wants to Go

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

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

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

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

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

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

This giant 200-year-old ginkgo is one of the largest in the United States.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

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

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

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

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

Pay your respects at the final resting place of the man behind one of the best-known names in food.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.