Places rwroberts Wants to Go

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

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

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

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

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

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

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

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

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

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

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

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

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

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

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

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