A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

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

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

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

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

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

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.

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

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

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