Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

An original apothecary from 1792.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.