Places Vidiot Wants to Go

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

America's first federal monument.

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

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

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

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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