Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

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

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

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

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

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

An original apothecary from 1792.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

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

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