A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

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

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

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

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

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

This small exhibit explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the first known conjoined twins.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.