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

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

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

An original apothecary from 1792.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

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

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

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

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

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

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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