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The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

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

America's first federal monument.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

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

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

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

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

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.

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

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

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.