A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

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

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

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

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

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

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

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

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

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.