Norfolk, Virginia
Cementiscope
A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.
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Norfolk, Virginia
A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.
Norfolk, Virginia
This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.
Norfolk, Virginia
One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.
York, Maine
The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.
York, Maine
True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.
Harpswell, Maine
An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.
Appomattox, Virginia
The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.
York, Maine
New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Lewisburg, West Virginia
Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.
Roanoke, Virginia
An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.
Roanoke, Virginia
Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.
Frisco, North Carolina
The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks. .
Bluff City, Tennessee
A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Marion, Virginia
An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.
Danville, Virginia
This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.
Prospect Hill, North Carolina
A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.