Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

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

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

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

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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 ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.