Gordonsville, Virginia
Gordonsville Fried Chicken Festival
This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.
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Gordonsville, Virginia
This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.
Montpelier Station, Virginia
The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Barboursville, Virginia
The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.
Staunton, Virginia
The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.
Staunton, Virginia
Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Lyndhurst, Virginia
This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.
Afton, Virginia
A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
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.
Charlottesville, Virginia
The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.
Syria, Virginia
Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.
Winthrop, Massachusetts
The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.
Stoneham, Massachusetts
This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.
Newton, Massachusetts
This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
Hull, Massachusetts
A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Winthrop, Massachusetts
A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.
Medford, Massachusetts
Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.