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

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

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

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

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

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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

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.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

Smoky, also known as "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," was a four-pound hero of World War II.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.