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

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

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

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

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

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

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

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

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

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

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

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

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

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

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

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