The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

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

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

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

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

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.

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

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.