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

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

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

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

An original apothecary from 1792.

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

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.

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

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

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

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

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

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.