This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

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

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.