Places Rural Exploration VA Wants to Go

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

Hidden in the forest atop a long, winding driveway is this stately home.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

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

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

A piece of the Ludendorff Bridge, also known as Remagan Bridge, calls this military base home.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

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

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A journey along this trail means indulging in a slice of nostalgia.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.