Places nejuum Wants to Go

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

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

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

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.