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

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

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

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

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

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

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

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

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.