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This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

Visit the site where the original Krispy Kreme doughnut was made back in 1937.

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

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

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

This unassuming home played a pivotal role in American history, essentially putting an end to the Revolutionary War.

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

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

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

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

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

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

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

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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.

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

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

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