Places stephsrs Wants to Go

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

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

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

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

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

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

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

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

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

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

America's first federal monument.

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

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

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

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

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

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

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

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

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