Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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

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

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

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

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

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

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

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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

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

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