Places sjgranai Wants to Go

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

This small beachside park commemorates the possibilities of discovery.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

Washed out by the Johnstown Flood in 1889, the surviving portion of the original two-span bridge now resides at Fishing Creek.

This hidden treasure provides a charming access point along the south side of Baker Park.

Bizarre Cavern.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

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

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