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

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

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

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

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

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.