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Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

An unkempt, oddly placed piece of land keeps an elderly farming couple in a residential area.

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.