S2E44 - Virginia, History in the Making?

They’re not preserving history—they’re rewriting it in real time. The Pocahontas Building vanished without protest, while a sign declared “Virginia History in the Making,” as if mocking the erasure. Ancient tunnel systems are disguised as new construction, Gothic palaces once stood on every U.S. corner, and structures allegedly built without power tools were labeled “outdated” just two decades later and torn down. The architect credited for many of these buildings, Elijah E. Myers, had no confirmed training and lay in an unmarked grave until 2009—while nearly all of his creations have been destroyed or stripped of domes. Fires...