Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

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 bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

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

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

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

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.

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

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

America's first public mental health facility.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

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

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.