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

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

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

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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

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

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

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

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

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

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