The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

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

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

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

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.