Places chelsb423 Wants to Go

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

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 only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

An original apothecary from 1792.

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

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

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

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

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