This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

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

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

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

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

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

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

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

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

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

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

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

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

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

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

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.