Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

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

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

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

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

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

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

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

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

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

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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

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

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

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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