Places sarahltait Wants to Go

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

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

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

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.