Places LexiRaine Wants to Go

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

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

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

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

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

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.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

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

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

Believed by many to be the oldest surviving public monument in the United States.

This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.