Some of the largest trees of their kinds exist throughout Williamsburg’s historic core.

Colonial Williamsburg was home to one of the earliest institutions in North America dedicated to educating Black children.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

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

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Soak in the sacred vibes at this beloved food and coffee hangout inside a former church.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

A family-run store in an 1892 pharmacy still slings old-fashioned sodas.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A relic from ancient Egypt that is purported to have a curse associated with it

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.