Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

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

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

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

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.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

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

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."