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An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

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

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A collection of abstract sculptures by a former tobacco auctioneer turned outsider artist.

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

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

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

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

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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

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

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

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.