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This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

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

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

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

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

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

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

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

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.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.