Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

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

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

An unprepossessing stone marks the last resting place of one of the most accomplished Native Americans in history.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.