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

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

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.

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

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

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

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

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

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

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

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

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