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

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

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

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

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

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?