On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

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

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

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

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

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

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

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

America's first public mental health facility.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

This is not your typical jungle gym.