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

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.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

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.

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

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

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.