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One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

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

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

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

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

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

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

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

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

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

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

An original apothecary from 1792.

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

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

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

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

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

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