81 haunted destinations cataloged across Virginia, spanning 48 counties. The collection features haunted house, museum, and other dark tourism site — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Richmond, VA
The Virginia Executive Mansion was completed in 1813 on the northeast corner of Capitol Square in Richmond, designed by Alexander Parris in Federal style. Continuously occupied since opening, it is the oldest sitting governor's mansion in the United States and a National Historic Landmark. Every Virginia governor since James Barbour has lived in the building.
Richmond, VA
The Virginia State Capitol was designed by Thomas Jefferson with assistance from French architect Charles-Louis Clérisseau, completed in 1788. It is the second-oldest U.S. state capitol building still in use. On April 27, 1870, the floor of an upper-story courtroom collapsed during a crowded mayoral hearing, killing approximately 62 people and injuring 251 in what became known as the Capitol Disaster.
Richmond, VA
Mason's Hall was begun in 1785 and completed by 1787 in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom. It is the oldest Masonic temple in continuous use in the United States. Edmund Randolph and John Marshall were members; the Marquis de Lafayette was made an honorary member here in 1824. The building served as a makeshift hospital during the War of 1812.
Richmond, VA
The Egyptian Building is a National Historic Landmark designed in 1845 by architect Thomas Somerville Stewart for the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College — the predecessor of the Medical College of Virginia (now VCU School of Medicine). It is the oldest medical college building in the American South and one of the nation's foremost surviving examples of Egyptian Revival architecture. Originally housing ventilated wards and dissection rooms on its upper floors, the building was the locus of 19th-century medical training that included unlawful procurement of cadavers, documented historically by the 1994 discovery of human remains in the East Marshall Street Well one block away.
Yorktown, VA
Crawford Road is a 3.6-mile rural road in York County, Virginia, designated Route 637, running between Goosley Road and Yorktown Road through woods adjacent to the Yorktown Battlefield and Newport News Park. The bridge associated with the road's folklore is a 1930s concrete overpass where the National Park Service's Tour Road crosses Crawford Road. At least five murders have been documented on or near the road since 1990.
Alexandria, VA
Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia consists of two 18th-century buildings: a circa-1785 tavern and the 1792 City Hotel. Named for Englishman John Gadsby, who operated both from 1796 to 1808, the complex hosted George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Washington's birthday celebrations were held here for years. The buildings are now a working restaurant and a city-operated museum.
Richmond, VA
The Byrd Theatre opened on December 24, 1928, on West Cary Street in Richmond's Carytown neighborhood. Designed by architect Fred Bishop in an opulent French Empire style, the 1,400-seat movie palace remains in continuous operation as a cinema and live-performance venue. Robert Coulter served as manager from opening night until his retirement in 1971.
Richmond, VA
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum opened as the Poe Shrine in 1922 and is centered on the Old Stone House, built around 1740 by German immigrant Jacob Ege and widely cited as the oldest original residential building in Richmond. The complex occupies five buildings in Shockoe Bottom and holds one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Poe manuscripts, personal artifacts, and first editions.
Richmond, VA
The Ellen Glasgow House, also known as the Branch-Glasgow House, was built in 1841 as a Greek Revival townhouse at the southwest corner of West Main and Foushee Streets. Ellen Glasgow lived there from 1887 until her death in 1945 and produced most of her major novels in its second-floor study. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
Richmond, VA
Hollywood Cemetery was founded in 1847 by William Haxall and Joshua Fry, modeled on Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Architect John Notman designed the rolling 135-acre garden cemetery overlooking the James River. It became the burial place of Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and approximately 18,000 Confederate veterans, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Richmond, VA
The Jefferson Hotel was built by Richmond tobacco magnate Lewis Ginter and opened October 31, 1895. Designed by Carrère and Hastings in the Beaux-Arts style, the hotel was conceived as the most luxurious in the American South. The property has been a National Historic Landmark since 1969 and remains a AAA Five Diamond hotel.
Richmond, VA
The John Marshall House was built in 1790 by future Chief Justice John Marshall in Richmond's Court End neighborhood. Marshall lived there with his wife Mary Willis 'Polly' Ambler Marshall and their family for 45 years until his death in 1835. The Federal-style brick house is a National Historic Landmark and is operated as a museum by Preservation Virginia.
Richmond, VA
Tuckahoe Plantation, built circa 1733 along the James River west of Richmond, is one of Virginia's best-preserved early 18th-century plantation complexes. The property was developed by the Randolph family and is most famous as the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson, who lived here from approximately 1745 to 1752 while his father Peter managed the estate during the wardship of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. The plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Richmond, VA
Belle Isle is a 54-acre island in the James River that operated as a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp from 1862 to early 1865, holding approximately 30,000 Union enlisted soldiers during its existence with peak overcrowding far beyond its intended capacity. Disease, exposure, and starvation killed as many as 1,000 prisoners according to most accepted estimates. After the war the island hosted ironworks and a hydroelectric power plant (1904-1963), and in 1973 it became part of the James River Park System.
Richmond, VA
The Church Hill Tunnel was built in 1873 by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway to carry rail traffic approximately 4,000 feet under the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond. The tunnel suffered chronic structural problems in its soft clay roof and was largely abandoned by the 1900s. On October 2, 1925, the western portion of the roof collapsed onto a work train, killing engineer Thomas Joseph Mason, severely injuring fireman Benjamin F. Mosby (who died of his burns at the hospital), and trapping at least two laborers—Richard Lewis and a worker identified only as 'H. Smith'—whose bodies were never recovered. The railroad sealed both portals with concrete after a nine-day rescue attempt failed.
Richmond, VA
The Ginter House is a three-and-a-half-story Richardsonian Romanesque mansion designed by Harvey L. Page and William Winthrop Kent and built 1888-1892 for cigarette magnate and philanthropist Lewis Ginter. After Ginter's death in 1897 it passed to his niece Grace Arents, then to the Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health in 1930, and eventually to Virginia Commonwealth University. The building now serves as VCU's Office of the Provost.
Richmond, VA
Monumental Church stands at 1224 E Broad Street on the site of the Richmond Theatre fire of December 26, 1811, which killed 72 people including Virginia governor George William Smith and former U.S. senator Abraham B. Venable in what was the worst urban disaster in the early United States. The Greek Revival memorial church was commissioned by U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, designed by Robert Mills (a pupil of Thomas Jefferson and architect of the Washington Monument), and built between 1812 and 1814. The remains of the fire victims are interred in a brick crypt beneath the sanctuary.
Richmond, VA
St. John's Episcopal Church is Richmond's oldest church, established in 1741 on land donated by city founder William Byrd II. It is most famous as the site where Patrick Henry delivered his 'Give me liberty, or give me death' speech at the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775. The surrounding churchyard contains notable burials including U.S. Declaration of Independence signer George Wythe and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, mother of Edgar Allan Poe.
Richmond, VA
The William H. Grant House is an Italianate three-story brick townhouse built in 1857 for Richmond tobacco merchant William H. Grant. From 1892 through 1965 the building housed the Sheltering Arms Hospital — Richmond's first free hospital — including a subbasement-level morgue and incinerator. It is now owned by Virginia Commonwealth University and houses the VCU Department of Dermatology and Risk Management. The property was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1968 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Williamsburg, VA
Camp Peary is a U.S. military intelligence training facility in Virginia with reported paranormal activity.
Williamsburg, VA
Carter's Grove is a 1755 Georgian plantation house overlooking the James River in James City County, Virginia. Long owned and operated as a museum by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the 476-acre estate was sold to a private buyer in 2007 and is no longer open to the public.
Williamsburg, VA
The George Wythe House is a Georgian brick residence on Williamsburg's Palace Green, built around 1755 by Richard Taliaferro and given to his daughter Elizabeth on her marriage to George Wythe. Wythe — the first Virginian to sign the Declaration of Independence, the first American law professor, and mentor to Thomas Jefferson — was poisoned in Richmond in 1806 by his grandnephew George Sweeney. The house is now an interpreted museum operated by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Williamsburg, VA
The Governor's Palace served as the official residence of British royal governors of Virginia from 1722 and later of Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, the first two governors of the Commonwealth. The original building burned on December 22, 1781, while in use as a Continental Army hospital. The Palace was reconstructed in the 1930s, during which 156 Revolutionary War soldiers' remains were unearthed.
Williamsburg, VA
King's Arms Tavern was opened on February 6, 1772, by Jane Vobe on East Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg. It served as one of the foremost gathering places in colonial Virginia, where genteel planters, merchants, and politicians dined on dishes including peanut soup and Virginia ham. The tavern is now operated by Colonial Williamsburg and continues as a full-service restaurant in a carefully restored 18th-century structure.
Williamsburg, VA
The Peyton Randolph House in Colonial Williamsburg was built circa 1715 by William Robertson and expanded in subsequent decades. Sir John Randolph purchased the property in 1721; his son Peyton Randolph, who served as the first President of the Continental Congress, inherited and enlarged it. The house enslaved approximately 27 people. During the Civil War the building served as a field hospital, with wounded soldiers treated in its rooms.
Williamsburg, VA
The Public Hospital of 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public facility in British North America built specifically for the care and treatment of people with mental illness. The original building burned in 1885; the current structure is a 1985 reconstruction by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, opened together with the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
Williamsburg, VA
The Wren Building is the oldest college building in the United States, first constructed between 1695 and 1700 at the College of William & Mary. The President's House was completed in 1733. During the Revolutionary War the Wren served as a hospital for French soldiers wounded at Yorktown in 1781, and the President's House was occupied successively by Cornwallis, the French and Continental Army wounded, and Lafayette.
Williamsburg, VA
The Kimball Theatre stands on Merchants Square in Williamsburg, Virginia, on the site of the former Ware family home. Mrs. Ware, widowed before the Civil War, converted her home to a refuge for poorer families and later to a makeshift field hospital during the May 1862 Battle of Williamsburg, when Union and Confederate forces clashed in the streets of the town.
Norfolk, VA
USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship commissioned April 16, 1944, that served in the closing campaigns of World War II in the Pacific, then in the Korean War (1951–52), and was reactivated for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. She was officially transferred to the City of Norfolk in December 2009 and is permanently berthed at Nauticus on the downtown Norfolk waterfront as a museum ship.
Norfolk, VA
Freemason Abbey occupies an 1873 brick church in Norfolk's Freemason historic district. Built originally for the Second Presbyterian congregation, the building passed to the First Church of Christ Scientist (1902–1948), then to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (1948–1987) as a meeting hall, before being converted into a restaurant beginning in 1988.
Norfolk, VA
The Moses Myers House is a 1792 Federal-era brick townhouse built by merchant Moses Myers, one of the first Jewish residents of Norfolk and an early American millionaire. Five generations of the Myers family lived here from 1795 to 1931. The house is now operated by the Chrysler Museum of Art as a historic house museum and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Norfolk, VA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church is the only colonial-era building in Norfolk to survive the British bombardment of January 1, 1776. The current nave was built in 1739 on the site of an earlier 1699 brick chapel known as the 'Borough Church.' A cannonball — purportedly fired by HMS Liverpool during Lord Dunmore's attack — remains embedded in the church's south wall.
Norfolk, VA
The Wells Theatre opened August 26, 1913, as a vaudeville and legitimate-stage house built by brothers Jake and Otto Wells. Designed by the New York firm E.C. Horn & Sons in Beaux-Arts neoclassical style, it once seated 1,650 across three balconies and twelve boxes. The Virginia Stage Company has been the resident professional theater company since 1979, and the building is owned by the City of Norfolk. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1980.
Norfolk, VA
Willoughby Spit is a narrow sand peninsula extending into the Chesapeake Bay from Norfolk's Ocean View neighborhood. It is named for Thomas Willoughby, who received a land grant in 1625. The spit was largely formed by an 18th-century hurricane in 1749 and substantially reshaped by the Great Coastal Hurricane of 1806, with major erosion and replenishment cycles continuing into the 21st century.
Virginia Beach, VA
The Cavalier Hotel opened on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1927, as a 195-room beaux-arts seaside resort on the Virginia Beach oceanfront. Across nearly a century it has hosted ten U.S. presidents, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Muhammad Ali, and Frank Sinatra, anchoring the Atlantic Avenue skyline as a designated National Trust property.
Virginia Beach, VA
The Chesapeake Beach Volunteer Fire and Rescue Station opened in 1962 in the Chicks Beach neighborhood of Virginia Beach. The station served the community for decades before eventually closing and being converted into a commercial space. New Realm Brewing Co. now operates at the site.
Virginia Beach, VA
Ferry Plantation House, also known as Walke Manor House or Old Donation Farm, is an 1830 brick house in Virginia Beach. The three-story structure has served as a plantation, courthouse, school, and post office. The City of Virginia Beach received the deed in 1996; the Friends of the Ferry Plantation House restored the building and operate it as a museum.
Alexandria, VA
The Lee-Fendall House in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia was built in 1785 by Philip Fendall on land originally purchased by Henry 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee. Thirty-seven members of the Lee family lived in the house between 1785 and 1903. The property served as a Union hospital during the Civil War and was the residence of labor leader John L. Lewis from 1937 to 1969. It opened as a museum in 1974.
Alexandria, VA
Woodlawn was built in 1805 on land George Washington gave to his nephew Lawrence Lewis and Lewis's wife Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis Lewis, Martha Washington's granddaughter. The 126-acre Federal-style estate is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and operates as a museum alongside the relocated Pope-Leighey House by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Charles City, VA
Benjamin Harrison IV built the current mansion at Berkeley Plantation in 1726, making it the oldest three-story brick structure in Virginia. The plantation became the birthplace of President William Henry Harrison in 1773 and the ancestral seat of a family that produced a signer of the Declaration of Independence and two U.S. Presidents. During the Civil War, General McClellan used the mansion as his headquarters and the cellar held Confederate prisoners.
Charles City, VA
Edgewood Plantation is an 1854 Gothic Revival mansion in Charles City County, Virginia, built by the Rowland brothers, millers from New Jersey. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, the property served as a Confederate lookout during the Civil War and has operated as a post office, restaurant, and bed-and-breakfast.
Fredericksburg, VA
Chatham Manor is a Georgian-style brick mansion completed in 1771 by William Fitzhugh on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia. Built as the center of a plantation that operated on enslaved labor, it later served as a Union headquarters and field hospital during the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. Volunteers at the hospital included Walt Whitman and Clara Barton. The estate was donated to the National Park Service in 1975 and opened to the public in 1977 as the headquarters of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
Fredericksburg, VA
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park preserves land from four Civil War battlefields fought between December 1862 and May 1864: Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. Established February 14, 1927, the park covers 8,405 acres and records more than 15,000 killed and 85,000 wounded across the four engagements. It remains the longest-named unit in the National Park system.
Hampton, VA
The original Hotel Chamberlin opened at Old Point Comfort in 1896 and was destroyed by fire on March 7, 1920. The current nine-story Georgian-style Chamberlin opened in April 1928 and served as a Chesapeake Bay resort for decades. The hotel closed after the 2001 security tightening at Fort Monroe and reopened in 2008 as a 55+ independent-living residence.
Hampton, VA
Fort Monroe is the largest stone fort ever built in the United States, completed in 1834 on the Hampton, Virginia peninsula at Old Point Comfort. The site is also the landing point where the first documented enslaved Africans arrived in English North America in 1619. Decommissioned by the Army in 2011, the property became Fort Monroe National Monument under the National Park Service.
Manassas, VA
Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves the sites of the First and Second Battles of Bull Run, fought in July 1861 and August 1862 respectively. The two engagements produced combined casualties exceeding 22,000. The Second Battle included a brutal contest over the Unfinished Railroad — a partially constructed rail line that Confederate forces used as a defensive position — where the 5th New York Zouave Regiment suffered approximately 300 casualties in ten minutes, the highest single-regiment loss rate of the entire war.
Manassas, VA
Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of the ground on which the First and Second Battles of Bull Run were fought in July 1861 and August 1862. The First Battle was the first major land engagement of the American Civil War. The park was established in 1936 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Yorktown, VA
The Nelson House at 501 Main Street in Yorktown, Virginia, is a circa-1730 brick Georgian townhouse built by Thomas Nelson, called Scotch Tom. His grandson Thomas Nelson Jr. signed the Declaration of Independence, served as wartime Governor of Virginia, and commanded the Virginia Militia at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. The house was acquired by the National Park Service in 1968 and restored in 1976.
Yorktown, VA
The Siege of Yorktown, fought September 28 to October 19, 1781, was the decisive engagement of the American Revolutionary War. American and French forces under General Washington and General Rochambeau besieged British General Cornwallis's fortified position; after 19 days, Cornwallis surrendered approximately 8,000 soldiers — the largest British capitulation of the war. Yorktown Battlefield is administered by the National Park Service as part of Colonial National Historical Park.
Abingdon, VA
The Martha Washington Inn was constructed in 1832 for General Francis Preston and his family as a private residence costing approximately $15,000. In 1858 the Preston home was purchased for $21,000 to establish Martha Washington College for young women, an institution that operated for over 70 years until the Great Depression and declining enrollment forced its closure in 1932. During the Civil War the building served as a field hospital, treating both Union and Confederate wounded, and schoolgirls became nurses. The property has operated as a hotel since 1935.
Amelia, VA
Haw Branch Plantation was first settled by Colonel Thomas Tabb in 1735 on a 15,000-acre parcel in Amelia County, Virginia, south of Richmond. The main Georgian house was built around 1745 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The property remains a working farm and private residence, restored and owned by a descendant of the Tabb family who purchased it in 1965.
Appomattox, VA
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park preserves the rural Virginia village where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the Civil War. The park preserves more than two dozen original and reconstructed structures, including the McLean House parlor where surrender terms were signed.
Arlington, VA
The Old Post Chapel at Fort Myer (now Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall) was conceived by Major George S. Patton Jr. in 1933 to combine a principal chapel and a mortuary chapel in one building. Ground was broken in February 1934, and the chapel was dedicated on April 21, 1935. Located beside Arlington National Cemetery, it has served as the departure point for tens of thousands of military funerals.
Blacksburg, VA
The Lyric Theatre at 135 College Avenue in Blacksburg opened on April 17, 1930, designed by Roanoke architect Louis Phillipe Smithey in an Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival blend. The theater seated 900 and was one of Virginia's first cinemas to screen sound films. After closing in 1989 due to multiplex competition, it reopened in 1996 and underwent renovation in 1998-1999, becoming a not-for-profit community arts center.
Boissevain, VA
Boissevain Road is a rural road in Virginia with reported paranormal phenomena.
Bowling Green, VA
Old Mansion at 200 South Main Street in Bowling Green, Virginia was built around 1741 by the Hoomes family. Major John Hoomes donated property for the Caroline County courthouse and gave permission for the new county seat to take the name of his estate, The Bowling Green. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Cismont, VA
Castle Hill is a Virginia plantation home in Albemarle County, originally built in 1764 by Dr. Thomas Walker. On June 4, 1781, Walker's wife reportedly delayed British Colonel Banastre Tarleton at breakfast long enough for the rider Jack Jouett to warn Thomas Jefferson of an approaching cavalry raid.
Cohoke, VA
Cohoke Crossing is a rural railroad intersection in King William County, Virginia, near the small crossroads community of Cohoke between Richmond and West Point. The railroad line running through Cohoke carried Confederate supply and troop movements during the Civil War. The crossing drew visitors so consistently during the mid-twentieth century that the county sheriff regularly had to disperse crowds.
Danville, VA
The Lanier House at 770 Main Street was built in 1830 by Captain James Lanier, Danville's first mayor, making it the oldest surviving residence in the city. The early Federal-style frame structure passed through several prominent owners, including the Wyllie family, who added the imposing two-story neo-Classical portico. From the 1940s through the 1970s the house served as home and diagnostic clinic for Dr. Samuel Newman, Danville's first pediatrician.
Diggs, VA
Old House Woods is a stretch of dense coastal forest near Diggs in Mathews County, Virginia, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The woods take their name from the eighteenth-century Frannie Knight house that once stood at the center of the area. The associated folklore — pirate treasure, a ghost Spanish galleon, headless dogs, and the green light — has been documented in regional oral history for more than two centuries and is included in the Virginia Department of Forestry's Ghosts of Forests Past program.
Farmville, VA
Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia was founded in 1839 and is one of the oldest public universities in the United States. The building associated with the elevator legend, formerly called Curry Hall, was constructed in 1969 as one of two 10-story high-rise residence halls. In 2020, both towers were extensively renovated and renamed: Curry Hall became Johns Hall, in honor of Barbara Rose Johns, who led the 1951 student walkout at Robert Russa Moton High School.
Gloucester, VA
Rosewell was begun in 1725 by Mann Page I and completed by his son Mann Page II around 1738. The three-story brick mansion, roughly 12,000 square feet, was widely considered the largest and finest house of colonial America, rivaling the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg. The Page family, one of Virginia's First Families, held it for over a century before it passed out of the family; the mansion burned in 1916, leaving the dramatic brick ruins that survive today.
Harrisonburg, VA
Keister Elementary School in Harrisonburg, Virginia, was built in 1955 and named in honor of Dr. William H. Keister, who served in the Harrisonburg public school system for more than fifty years. The school serves the Harrisonburg City Public Schools district and maintains an active nature trail on wooded property behind the building.
Hartfield, VA
A colonial-era three-story home in Hartfield, Middlesex County, Virginia, reportedly dates to the 1600s and features carved exterior ornamentation said to depict residents from the colonial and post-colonial periods. Middlesex County was part of the Virginia Tidewater's earliest European settlement zone, with structures from the 17th and 18th centuries scattered across the Piankatank River drainage. Specific historical documentation for this property was not found in publicly accessible records during research.
Hopewell, VA
Appomattox Manor, built in 1751, was the centerpiece of the Eppes family's City Point plantation at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers. During the 1864-65 Siege of Petersburg it became the nerve center of the Union war effort as General Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters, surrounded by one of the largest supply depots of the war. The Eppes family later donated the property to the National Park Service.
King George, VA
Belle Grove Plantation in King George County, Virginia was established around 1670 on the banks of the Rappahannock River. The plantation is the birthplace of President James Madison, born here March 16, 1751 in an earlier house that no longer stands; his mother Eleanor Conway Madison was visiting her family's plantation. The current Federal-style mansion was built in 1790 by John Hipkins for his daughter Fannie, and expanded in the mid-1800s by Carolinus Turner who added the porticos and terminal wings. The property now operates as a bed and breakfast and paranormal investigation venue.
Lancaster, VA
The Lancaster Tavern operates in a historic frame building on Mary Ball Memorial Highway in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Northern Neck peninsula. The tavern serves regional country cooking in a building that historical signage attributes to the eighteenth century. The Northern Neck region's tavern tradition dates to the colonial Tidewater road network connecting Williamsburg, Yorktown, and the Potomac plantations.
Max Meadows, VA
Major Graham Mansion at Cedar Run Farm was built in four sections between roughly 1830 and 1890 by the Graham family of Wythe County, Virginia. Constructed around an existing 1785 log house, the mansion served as the seat of an iron-furnace operation and was the home of Major David Pierce Graham of the 51st Virginia Infantry. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Newport News, VA
The Historic Boxwood Inn is the 1897 Simon Reid Curtis House at 10 Elmhurst Street in the Lee Hall neighborhood of Newport News. Curtis, the 'Boss Man' of then-Warwick County, built the 2.5-story Colonial Revival house to combine his family dwelling with the county Hall of Records, post office, and general store. The house was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register in June 2009 and the National Register of Historic Places in August 2009.
Norton, VA
Ramsey Cemetery, also known as Laurel Grove Cemetery's Ramsey Section, is a small rural family cemetery in Wise County, Virginia, holding burials of the Ramsey and Nance families. The cemetery has been documented for genealogical research by Paul Kilgore in Laurel Grove Cemetery: Ramsey Section of Norton, Virginia, Wise County.
Orange, VA
The Inn at Willow Grove occupies a Federal-style manor house begun in 1778 by Joseph Clark in Orange County, Virginia. A brick wing was added by his son in 1820. The property witnessed both Revolutionary War and Civil War activity in the rolling country at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Petersburg, VA
Petersburg National Battlefield preserves sites associated with the Siege of Petersburg, a nine-and-a-half-month Civil War operation from June 1864 to April 1865 in which the Union Army under Grant cut Confederate supply lines into Richmond. The siege's most-recounted action is the July 30, 1864 Battle of the Crater. Approximately 70,000 soldiers became casualties during the siege; the war effectively ended within days of the Confederate evacuation of Petersburg.
Portsmouth, VA
Olde Towne Portsmouth is a 20-square-block historic district preserving more than three centuries of waterfront architecture across approximately 500 buildings. The neighborhood is anchored by Trinity Episcopal Church and has hosted the Olde Towne Ghost Walk, one of the longest-running events of its kind in the United States, every year since 1980.
Radford, VA
St Albans Sanatorium in Radford, Virginia was founded in 1892 by George W. Miles, a University of Virginia graduate, as a Lutheran preparatory school for boys. In 1916 it was converted to a psychiatric hospital; it joined the Carilion Health System in the 1990s and closed in 2004. The structure, built on a 56-acre tract in what was then rural Pulaski County, is now operated as a paranormal investigation and event venue.
Sealston, VA
Lamb's Creek Church is a colonial Anglican church built between 1769 and 1777 to serve Brunswick Parish in King George County, Virginia. Credited to colonial architect John Ariss, it is a classic example of a rural colonial church and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Its interior was damaged during the Civil War and it remains in occasional use today within the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
Spotsylvania, VA
The Chancellorsville Battlefield preserves the site of Robert E. Lee's tactically celebrated May 1863 victory over a Union army nearly twice his size. The four-day battle produced roughly 30,000 combined casualties and mortally wounded Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
Stanardsville, VA
The Lafayette Inn has welcomed guests in Stanardsville, Virginia since 1840, occupying a Main Street building near the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains. The Battle of Stanardsville, a small Civil War cavalry engagement, took place in the surrounding town in 1864 and is woven into the inn's local lore.
Staunton, VA
The DeJarnette Sanitarium was founded in 1932 by psychiatrist and eugenicist Dr. Joseph S. DeJarnette as a semi-private facility on land adjacent to Western State Hospital in Staunton, Virginia. DeJarnette had been superintendent of Western State since 1906 and was a leading champion of compulsory sterilization. The facility operated for decades; its services moved to a modern complex in 1996, and the original 1930s building has stood abandoned since.
Surry, VA
Bacon's Castle, built in 1665 in Surry County, Virginia, is the oldest documented brick dwelling in what is now the United States and the sole surviving example of High Jacobean architecture in the Western Hemisphere. Originally the home of merchant-planter Arthur Allen, the structure was seized during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 and held by rebel forces for several months — earning its popular name despite Nathaniel Bacon himself never setting foot there. Preservation Virginia has owned and maintained the property since 1972.
West Augusta, VA
Braleys Pond is a natural water feature in Virginia with reported paranormal phenomena.
Winchester, VA
Fort Collier is a Confederate earthwork fortification near Winchester, Virginia, constructed in the early summer of 1861 under Lieutenant Cowles Miles Collier. On September 19, 1864, the site was the location of a Union cavalry charge that helped end the Third Battle of Winchester. The Fort Collier Civil War Center, Inc. purchased the ten-acre core of the site in 2002.