Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

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

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

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

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

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

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

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

On the upper deck of this church-owned parking garage stand eight pillars topped with different Catholic saints.