Rural Exploration VA

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Nike Missile Control Site N-85

Permanently Closed

Newport News, Virginia

Nike Missile Control Site N-85

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

The Ghost Church, fall 2016.

Mechanicsville, Virginia

The Ghost Church

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

DeJarnette Sanitarium.

Permanently Closed

Staunton, Virginia

Abandoned DeJarnette Sanitarium

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Abandoned Hydroelectric Plant from Early 1900's

Richmond, Virginia

Ruins of Belle Isle

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

Hollywood Cemetery

Richmond, Virginia

Hollywood Cemetery

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