A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

One of the oldest surviving Swedish-American homes in the United States.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

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 resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.