The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

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

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

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

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

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

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

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

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

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

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

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

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.

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