Places sheinsis Wants to Go

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

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

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

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

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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

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

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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

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