The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.