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Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

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

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

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

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

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

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.

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

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

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

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

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

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.