Places eapya Wants to Go

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

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

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

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

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

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

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.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

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