This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

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

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

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

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

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

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

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.