A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

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.”

America's first public mental health facility.

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

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

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

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

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

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.