Destructive children, start your engines.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

Bizarre Cavern.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

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

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

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