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

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

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

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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.

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

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

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

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

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

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

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

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

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

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

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

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