Places grantavery Wants to Go

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

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.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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

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

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

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.