This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

An original apothecary from 1792.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.