A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

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

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

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

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

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

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

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

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

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.