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

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

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

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

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

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

The only 'battle' in the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio set the stage for a persistent state rivalry.