An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

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

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

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

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

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

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.

This 17th-century place of worship still celebrates holidays in the traditional Swedish fashion.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.