Denver, Colorado
Mile High Comics Megastore
While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.
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Denver, Colorado
While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.
Denver, Colorado
This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
Falls Church, Virginia
These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.
Norfolk, Virginia
This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
McLean, Virginia
A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.
Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Alexandria, Virginia
Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.
Staunton, Virginia
Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.
Arlington, Virginia
An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.
Roanoke, Virginia
This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.
Barboursville, Virginia
The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.
Alexandria, Virginia
An original apothecary from 1792.
Mouth of Wilson, Virginia
The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.