Places ChrissyP Wants to Go

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

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

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

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

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

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

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