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

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

The replica western town of Shadowhawk was built by a former Hollywood actor in Smithfield, North Carolina.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.